falcon
05-01-2005, 12:00 AM
Is there a ratio of Phosphate(fleet enema) to KNO3 when dosing? The reason I ask, I have increased my KNO3 dosing and I am getting some algea on the glass and on the plants. On the glass, increase in green spot and some short furry, green algea. Same furry, green algea on the plants, especially swords. Before, I had pretty much no algea on the plants and hardly any on the glass. The reason for the increase was that I had some furry, patchy algea on equipment and gravel. Here are the specs:
tank: 120g
kH 3 gH 5 ph 6.4 (I think or less). Pressurize co2 injection, tank 60x18x26, 260w pc lights.
Dosing: 7g of KNO3 w/c(day 1) plus 12 drops of enema, d2,d4,d6 20ml of traces as per PMDD recipe, d3,d5 5.5g of KNO3 and 11 drops.
Before, I have been dosing 3x4g of KNO3 and 10 drops of enema plus 3x20ml traces. When I was dosing this, pearling wasn't as great as the current dosing but, on the positive side, hardly any algea on the glass and plants.
This leads me to believe that maybe I am dosing too much now or enema and KNO3 are not in balance.
Please shed some light onto this. Thanks.
falcon
tank: 120g
kH 3 gH 5 ph 6.4 (I think or less). Pressurize co2 injection, tank 60x18x26, 260w pc lights.
Dosing: 7g of KNO3 w/c(day 1) plus 12 drops of enema, d2,d4,d6 20ml of traces as per PMDD recipe, d3,d5 5.5g of KNO3 and 11 drops.
Before, I have been dosing 3x4g of KNO3 and 10 drops of enema plus 3x20ml traces. When I was dosing this, pearling wasn't as great as the current dosing but, on the positive side, hardly any algea on the glass and plants.
This leads me to believe that maybe I am dosing too much now or enema and KNO3 are not in balance.
Please shed some light onto this. Thanks.
falcon