EDIT: I just found what I need, and now I have a new question. Here is my revised post.
I want to create a low tech tank of sorts without CO2, where I can dose Excel/Metricide, but then when I leave for college, my dad will take care of my tank and won't have a lot of work to do. I think my dad would be fine with weekly dosing, maybe he even might get into it a little, but ideally anything that needed to be done would be done every other week.
So anyways, would switching from an Excel dosed tank to a non CO2 tank cause algae to suddenly grow? I am also a little bit worried that when I leave, my plant growth will be so slow that the uptake of NH4 from fish waste won't be enough to keep up with pooping fish. I have about 6 neon tetras, 14 guppies, and 2 mollies (fingers cross that they are both male-male or female-female) and a host of red cherry shrimp in a 10 gallon tank. My tank is moderately, on the brink of heavily, planted with low light, "fast" growing stem and floating plants including frogbit, wysteria, riccia, ludwigia repens, moneywort, pennywort, hornwort, java moss, guppy grass, and lindernia rotundifolia (sp?). The light is a Marineland Double Bright LED fixture (lots of lumens, but not a ton of PAR) and gets some afternoon sunlight, so I am wondering if this is too much light for a low tech tank, consequently inducing algae growth.
I want to create a low tech tank of sorts without CO2, where I can dose Excel/Metricide, but then when I leave for college, my dad will take care of my tank and won't have a lot of work to do. I think my dad would be fine with weekly dosing, maybe he even might get into it a little, but ideally anything that needed to be done would be done every other week.
So anyways, would switching from an Excel dosed tank to a non CO2 tank cause algae to suddenly grow? I am also a little bit worried that when I leave, my plant growth will be so slow that the uptake of NH4 from fish waste won't be enough to keep up with pooping fish. I have about 6 neon tetras, 14 guppies, and 2 mollies (fingers cross that they are both male-male or female-female) and a host of red cherry shrimp in a 10 gallon tank. My tank is moderately, on the brink of heavily, planted with low light, "fast" growing stem and floating plants including frogbit, wysteria, riccia, ludwigia repens, moneywort, pennywort, hornwort, java moss, guppy grass, and lindernia rotundifolia (sp?). The light is a Marineland Double Bright LED fixture (lots of lumens, but not a ton of PAR) and gets some afternoon sunlight, so I am wondering if this is too much light for a low tech tank, consequently inducing algae growth.
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