No Algae Problem Even Under Direct Sunlight

[vandominic]

Hi guys! I just want to share my outdoor tank. It's been more than a moth since setup and to save electricity I have placed this under direct sunlight from sunrise to sunset. I only have a medium sized sponge filter and seldom do water changes. Maybe just once every week and sometimes once in two weeks waterchange. I still don't have algae problems because of my faithful shrimps and nerite snails.

[jpappy789]

Nice tank! Hopefully you dont run into algae problems down the road but I would consider your maintenance routine to be fairly normal

[tanker]

Good Luck. And it looks like you have a small Bio load too.

[vandominic]

Thanks sir. This tank has been more than a month on this spot and under direct sunlight from sunrise to sunset. The tank before this one on this same spot was more than a year and still no algae problem because of the nerites and shrimps that I keep. That tank I do not do waterchange very often. Maybe just once in three months. It was my storage tank for my nerites and shrimps. This tank only has a medium sized sponge filter. But I do waterchange once in a week or once in two weeks. Thanks! :-)

[vandominic]

Im breeding yellow shrimps and class n endlers on this tank. Hense very small bioload yet. :-)

[StarSapphire22]

Beautiful tank! Love the "tree"! Wanna come do mine? lol

[eth0s]

Very cool indeed. What is the tree-looking thing?


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[vandominic]

Sure I can do yours StarSapphire if you just bring me to your place. lol! The tree thing is just a mangrove root turned upsidedown and the leaves are Hydrocotyle tripartita.

[SubRosa]

Where are you located? I would think that you're somewhere a lot closer to the equator than I am. The longer days at higher latitudes really complicate what you're doing so well.

[vandominic]