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
Plant problem.
.Over the years I tried over and over again to grow plants but the result was always the same, the plants got covered in the same type of algae as the OP and stop growing as the leaves are covered in the algae. The only solution was to wash the plants, but after a while this became impossible as the algae were covering more of the leaves and the only plant strong enough to support the weekely wash was Anubia.
I tried juggling with the lighting time per day, adding easycarbo (as CO2 at the moment is not possible), ferts, increasing the frequency of the water changes, so far nothing worked. I'm on the verge of giving up on the plants and using the plastic ones
I'm curious if the OP managed to address the algae problem and how?
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for the advice. I'm following more or less the same steps as you did, started to use dry ferts, Easycarbo (not directly on the plants though), have 3 SAE which by now are too big to be bothered with the algae. I'll try and apply the Easycarbo directly on the few Ludwigia repens which is the most affected. I'm reluctant to add more fish in the tank as I'm almost on the verge of overstocking (if not already there).I'll see how things go over the next couple of weeks and then I'll take you on that telephone conversation offer.
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DO NOT add phosphates! Trust me. Good luck,keep us posted. Cheers.
No mouth bigger than the smallest fish in tank.
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