Hi,
in february I tried a new scape, shortly after the startup of the tank it got infested with diatoms. Thanks to Tom Barr I managed to get rid of them by doing a waterchange of 50% 3 times a week. After 2 weeks it was gone.
Though in april i realized i wasnt happy with the rock formation and decided to change it. Meaning: moving the substrate and stones and replanting everything. I think a week or so after this, the diatoms reappeared. Now almos 8 weeks after rescaping the diatoms are still there. I have been very strict with the water changes. I add Easylife Carbo and I also am using pressurized CO2 and the EI method.
I took some pictures to visualize what am dealing with. Since im not able to get rid of them i wonder if these are diatoms. Im getting really 'depressed' at the moment. After rescaping the tank never trived.
Maybe this is also important but i have a lot of tiny worms in my substrate and those worms are always on the brown/black stuff (diatoms?). i have been reading into the planaria but i dont think this is planaria. these are way smaller (if you dont look for them you wont see them) and dont have a head like planaria. These worms should be very common and are no thread whasoever (from what ive read on the internet)
Do you kind people have any tips for me what to do? What am i dealing with and why wont it go away.
Here are the pics.
Thank you very much for all your help!!
in february I tried a new scape, shortly after the startup of the tank it got infested with diatoms. Thanks to Tom Barr I managed to get rid of them by doing a waterchange of 50% 3 times a week. After 2 weeks it was gone.
Though in april i realized i wasnt happy with the rock formation and decided to change it. Meaning: moving the substrate and stones and replanting everything. I think a week or so after this, the diatoms reappeared. Now almos 8 weeks after rescaping the diatoms are still there. I have been very strict with the water changes. I add Easylife Carbo and I also am using pressurized CO2 and the EI method.
I took some pictures to visualize what am dealing with. Since im not able to get rid of them i wonder if these are diatoms. Im getting really 'depressed' at the moment. After rescaping the tank never trived.
Maybe this is also important but i have a lot of tiny worms in my substrate and those worms are always on the brown/black stuff (diatoms?). i have been reading into the planaria but i dont think this is planaria. these are way smaller (if you dont look for them you wont see them) and dont have a head like planaria. These worms should be very common and are no thread whasoever (from what ive read on the internet)
Do you kind people have any tips for me what to do? What am i dealing with and why wont it go away.
Here are the pics.
Thank you very much for all your help!!