Hi,
I started 135G about a month ago. Everything seems fine except that I have different algae - not much but noticable. I think it's BBA, green spot and thread algae. My current kH is 4 and I keep pH with controller at 6.4 (on with lights only). Using ph/kh scale I calculate 48ppm CO2 but all the fish is doing great. From what I can find it's recommended to increase CO2 level to fight algae. So what is better: increase KH or decrease pH?
Other parameters: PO4 at about 2ppm, NO3 at about 10-20 ppm, temp 26C, open top, light - 3x150W MH for 4 hours midday and the rest 6 hrs - 2x96W PC. I think it's heavy planted but not quite sure - there are over 30 plants of different size. I didn't add PO4 yet as it was too high initially (>5ppm). I think it came from the eco-complete as there is none in our water.
Thanks,
Mikhail
I started 135G about a month ago. Everything seems fine except that I have different algae - not much but noticable. I think it's BBA, green spot and thread algae. My current kH is 4 and I keep pH with controller at 6.4 (on with lights only). Using ph/kh scale I calculate 48ppm CO2 but all the fish is doing great. From what I can find it's recommended to increase CO2 level to fight algae. So what is better: increase KH or decrease pH?
Other parameters: PO4 at about 2ppm, NO3 at about 10-20 ppm, temp 26C, open top, light - 3x150W MH for 4 hours midday and the rest 6 hrs - 2x96W PC. I think it's heavy planted but not quite sure - there are over 30 plants of different size. I didn't add PO4 yet as it was too high initially (>5ppm). I think it came from the eco-complete as there is none in our water.
Thanks,
Mikhail