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
Looking for advice on Plant care / algae
Just looking for some advice. Near the front of my tank I have one Crypto pontederifolia and two Crypto luteas. They're planted for a few months now, and aren't looking as good as they could be, I reckon.
Firstly, and most obviously, there's a dark algae on the leaves of them, especially on the luteas:
I've got two Nerite Snails in the tank, but they don't seem too interested in this algae. Is there anything I can do? I do plan to get some Otos, would they take care of this algae?
However, apart from the Algae, some of the leaves don't look the best and I feel like I should be doing a bit of trimming / pruning maybe? But I have absolutely no clue about how to do this? Any advice about how to get the plants looking their best? Please explain it as simply as you can, I really have no idea about it!
I should probably say, I put Ferrorpol 24 and Easy Carbo into the tank every day, and I do 6 hours of light (anything more really seems to give the Algae a boost). The substrate is Manado over AquaBasis Plus..
Thanks in advance...
J.
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That's an interesting video, though I'd be a little worried about spraying hydrogen peroxyde around the place! Am looking at a few other videos too.
Here's a recent pic of the tank:
I have the lights down to 6 hours a day, but I'm wondering if I have too many nutrients in the tank. There's AquaBasis Plus and then I'm putting in FerroPol24 (and EasyCarbo) every day. It's a Rio 180L tank (well, with 145L of water) with only 6 plants in it, so maybe I don't need all that Ferropol24?
Thanks...
J.
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I am trying to at least indentify this growth (I assume it's algae). Any ideas? It's brown in colour, and is pretty flat (i.e. not hairy or anything like that) and doesn't rub off the leaves. Occasionally I've encouraged one of the Nerite Snails onto one of the leaves, and while they didn't hang around on it, the path they took did clean it off. So any ideas exactly what this growth is? If I can identify it, that helps narrow down a cure / prevention.
Apart from that, any advice on pruning or triming to encourage growth is appreciated, I'd love the plants to be more full and bigger. i tend to remove dead / dying leaves, but I think maybe I should prune some other leaves too, to encourage growth? Maybe the ones with the worse algae on them?
Thanks...
J.
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