[APD] Re: Hair Algae Help!!

["Brian Fish" <dychung1015 at hotmail_com>]

Rachel and Scott, thanks for your suggestions.  NO3 is around 20-30 ppm.
light is 18W. I will cut down the light time to 10 hours.  Should I change
my water more often, 2 times a week and 30% each time?
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> Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 17:10:06 -0500
> From: "Brian Fish" <dychung1015 at hotmail_com>
> Subject: [APD] Hair Algae Help!!
> To: <aquatic-plants at actwin_com>
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> Please help!!  I've been battling with hair algae for almost a month and I
> am losing it.  I've done 30% water change every week and reduced to half
of
> suggested dose of Flourish EXCEL, Potassium, and Flourish. Please suggest
> any other things I could do.  It's a 10 Gal planted tank with 6700K
> fluorescent light.  My light is on about 12-14 hours each day.
>
> Thanks
> Brian
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 14:27:41 -0700
> From: "Rachel Sandage" <rachelsor at hotmail_com>
> Subject: Re: [APD] Hair Algae Help!!
> To: "aquatic plants digest" <aquatic-plants at actwin_com>
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> What are your nitrate levels? (NO3)
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>   From: Brian Fish<mailto:dychung1015 at hotmail_com>
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>   Subject: [APD] Hair Algae Help!!
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>   Please help!!  I've been battling with hair algae for almost a month and
I
>   am losing it.  I've done 30% water change every week and reduced to half
of
>   suggested dose of Flourish EXCEL, Potassium, and Flourish. Please
suggest
>   any other things I could do.  It's a 10 Gal planted tank with 6700K
>   fluorescent light.  My light is on about 12-14 hours each day.
>
>   Thanks
>   Brian
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> Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 15:10:21 -0700 (PDT)
> From: "S. Hieber" <shieber at yahoo_com>
> Subject: Re: [APD] Hair Algae Help!!
> To: aquatic plants digest <aquatic-plants at actwin_com>
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> Rachel asked about NO3 levels. Good thing to check. You can
> also cut your lights back to 10 hours. 10 to 12 is mucho
> plenty time for lights on. If they aren't on a timer, you
> can get one for a few bucks. How much light do you have on
> the tank? 1.5-2 watts per gallon is plenty if you don't add
> CO2. 2-3 watts if you do.
>
> Keep up with cleaning out what you can by hand, get you
> chem levels in balance 10 to 1 NO3 to PO4 with NO3 at about
> 5 to 10 ppm. Dose Potassium to about 20 ppm -- you can
> check the archives for Tom Barr's not-test-kit regimen for
> dosing and water changes. The balance and mechanical
> cleaning will get you at least 90% of the way there. Adding
> CO2 can help too.
>
> Scott H,
> --- Brian Fish <dychung1015 at hotmail_com> wrote:
> > Please help!!  I've been battling with hair algae for
> > almost a month and I
> > am losing it.  I've done 30% water change every week and
> > reduced to half of
> > suggested dose of Flourish EXCEL, Potassium, and
> > Flourish. Please suggest
> > any other things I could do.  It's a 10 Gal planted tank
> > with 6700K
> > fluorescent light.  My light is on about 12-14 hours each
> > day.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Brian
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