Retirement and forum shutdown (17 Jan 2022)
Hi,
John Howell who has managed the forum for years is getting on and wishes to retire from the role of managing it.
Over the years, he has managed the forum through good days and bad days and he has always been fair.
He has managed to bring his passion for fish keeping to the forum and keep it going for so long.
I wish to thank John for his hard work in keeping the forum going.
With John wishing to "retire" from the role of managing the forum and the forum receiving very little traffic, I think we must agree that forum has come to a natural conclusion and it's time to put it to rest.
I am proposing that the forum be made read-only from March 2022 onwards and that no new users or content be created. The website is still registered for several more years, so the content will still be accessible but no new topics or replies will be allowed.
If there is interest from the ITFS or other fish keeping clubs, we may redirect traffic to them or to a Facebook group but will not actively manage it.
I'd like to thank everyone over the years who helped with forum, posted a reply, started a new topic, ask a question and helped a newbie in fish keeping. And thank you to the sponsors who helped us along the away. Hopefully it made the hobby stronger.
I'd especially like to thank John Howell and Valerie Rousseau for all of their contributions, without them the forum would have never been has successful.
Thank you
Darragh Sherwin
Another Algea problem
fourmations,
My water gets cloudy very slighty green which is prob from the sunlight in my living room but it gets no direct sunlight. Its the green/brown algae thats forms on the glass and round the bottem of the tank that looks horrible.
There was a Co2 calculator, entered in my details
PH: 7.5
KH: 180
and got a reading of Co2 9.582 ppm.......?
Specs:
Juwel rio 180
juwel internal filter( came with tank ),
juwel 200w heater( that works:laugh:)
T5 light setup 1 day , 1 nature
Wondering if you have heard anything on this algone stuff
algone.com/
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I've seen a slow, but steady rise in recent weeks in what appears to be Green Spot algae..
(thanks for the link to help identify:)
mralgae.blogspot.com/2008/01/so-you-have...ed-weed-in-your.html
..on the glass of the tank only (started at the back, and now appearing
on the front too).the water is clear, lights are only on 6 hours a days, Juwel 240 with T lighting.
nothing unusual changed recently, have 2 plecs, but they are not working overtime
also the Algae is getting harder to remove from the glass with the magnets (I'll have to upgrade to
a razor blade).All readings normal. Only really have 1 plant in the tank.
Have read a few other topics on this, but cant seem to pinpoint where to go.
any direction would be helpful..
Brian
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Still have the algae problem and its steadily increasing, althgough water quality is remaining good and clear, just the glass getting caked with it and harder to scrap and remove.The algae brush i bought is begining to crack at the handles, is there another scrubber I can buy that won't scrape the glass in the process? I'm cleaning it off and its returning within a week, still don't know root cause, any ideas?
oh and I've also reduced the lighting from 8 to 5.5 hours a day.
Brian
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You are right Ted potash is potassium sulphate and it is potassium phosphate(K2PO4) that is needed.
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