Thanks Larry. I suspect that I do not have enough plants.
Dave.
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From: Larry Blanchard <labl02@aol.com>
To: tropicalfishclub@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, 29 May 2013, 1:07
Subject: Re: [tropical fish club] Algae
On 05/28/2013 02:15 PM, david hall wrote:
> Should I have the tank lights on more or less, on for 10 hrs a day at present.
It's a tradeoff. If you cut down on the hours of light it will help
with the algae, but it'll slow the growth of the plants. Once the
plants get big and healthy the algae will go away.
200 liters is roughly 40 US gallons. I've got a 40 gallon with
Cryptocornepetchii and Hygrophila difformis and I'm running10 hours a
day with 80 watts of T5HO. Nary a bit of algae. I'm even having to feed
the otoclinus :-).
I don't have your problem with outside light though. Estimating its
equivalence in fluorescent watts is almost impossible.
You don't say how big the plants are. Mine occupy roughly 30% of the
total tank space. When they were smaller I had lots of algae and even
added algae killer to hold it down. I stopped the algae killer when the
plants started out-competingthe algae.
Larry B
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