It seems evident in what you are trying to say, but plant ARE NOT algae — although, of course, algae ARE plants. As for the subject of whether the higher aquatic plants will outcompete the algae, and the nutrients both need as you’ve outlined, the latter is a given in that in the aquarium […]
In real ecosystems with plants of different species all the nutrients that are found in live plants get recycled when they die and are available to the other living things again: the sugars and cellulose are all broken down into monomers. As far as Algae outcompeting plants for nutriets and Plants growing […]
I have a 40 gallon tank with just a couple of fish and a bunch of live rock. I rarely do any maintenance, so I get a lot of aiptasia (which I eventually get around to getting rid of), but I have enough coralline algae growth that I have to keep scraping […]
I had a reef tank for more than 15 yr’s and closed it 2 yr’s back. I could not keep my calcium levels up enough to encourage my coralline algae to grow well enough. I tried the purple up for a few months and did not really see much new growth. Using a good […]
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Have you tried taking a sample of your water to your LFS to see if they can test it for you, just to be sure something isn’t going wrong at home? Are you testing the water before a PWC and then after to see if anything has changed? Just ideas, Amber
Alina wrote: > […]
I wouldn’t stop water changes, I would search a little harder for those dead snail carcasses. Chances are there’s one hiding somewhere and you haven’t found it yet… Do you have fake plants? Check inside the plants fake or real and see if it’s hiding under a leaf or something like that. […]
Hi Lenny,
Thanks for replying…I did a battery of tests and all other chem levels are normal…no high nitrites, etc..just ammonia. I did have two snails that died in the last 4 weeks, however. Both mysteriously disappeared and I was left with an empty floating shell. I thought, as you mention, that there would be […]
You can but, its a lot more work involved. First you have to remove all traces of salt and all the salt deposits, which are not only harmful to the fish but, its ugly to look at. But, saltwater has other elements that have to be removed, like strontium and iodine to name a couple. […]