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Many of my plants leafs are becoming covered with a dark algae and I was thinking that it may be due to to much light (duration). Any thoughts on this.. Thanks for any info!
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Re: How long do you keep your lights on for your plants?
Depending on intensity, co2, fertilizers and plant need I usually do anywhere from 7-10hrs.
Most all my tanks are 8-9 though with lots of co2 and high light, the plants soak all the ferts up as well as the light.
What lighting are you using and how much? Dosing ferts? Injecting co2? Stocking?700g Mini-Monster tank -
Re: How long do you keep your lights on for your plants?
I run the lights on the one planted tank I have for 12 hours a day.. no CO2 and the plants are growing like wildfire. Now granted I have cheap plants that grow like wildfire because I didnt want to spend a lot of money on something that could fail. The plants looks great.. my fish on the other hand has had problems - see the disease and disaster section - hopefully soon things will change for the better..
What fish do Jesper have
180 WC T. Moorii Chilambo +1 Petro trewavasae.
110 Cyps, WC Xeno Spilopterus Kipili WC/F1/F2 T. sp red Kiku
58 S. Decorus
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Re: How long do you keep your lights on for your plants?
Mudskipper,
Algae on plants is typically due to incorrect nutrients. Incorrect nutrients is aggravated by incorrect lighting, either too long time period or wrong spectrum or both. There are many types of algae.
You didn't say how long you run your lights or what sort of lights you have. It would also be helpful to know if you add any fertilizers, CO2, and how heavily stocked your tank is (specifically, how much you feed this tank)
The Holy Trinity of the planted tank is Light (first), CO2 (second), and Nutrients (third).Comment
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