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I just can't catch a break apparently. I was looking at my dust ridden tank today (issues with aquasoil, but that's off topic), I saw these tiny little white worm like things dancing about in there. After a quick trip to google I think they're nematodes (according to the post by Fishie Mama...

what jpappy said. tank specs necessary for accurate advice :) BBA tends to be influenced greatly by CO2. too high light + not enough co2 = bba, at least from my experience (had a good amount of bba in the past :mad2:). never had hair algae, not sure what that's caused by

so more or less the issue seems to be that there is a ton of exposed (i.e not covered by plants) aquasoil. since there is a decent amount of current in the tank (including near the substrate, since the eheim 2213 is a little bit much for a 15 gallon I think), it's stirring up whatever is in the...

I just can't decide on a foreground plant lol. I already have some dwarf hairgrass on the way, looking for more to get the foreground to fill in quicker. If you have any let me know :thm:

i'm starting to agree...i don't think this is a bacteria bloom. i thought it was because the water is white (which picture 3 doesn't do a good job of showing), but the dust I kick up when I vacuum the gravel is also whitish once it spreads out and gets diluted (when it congregates it's a brown...

oh I thought he meant he had some that he wanted to plant. no there definitely isn't any clover in there that I can see. check out the pictures of my tank before the rescape (click the link in my signature); that's what clover looks like. much smaller than the plant there on the left of the tank

also, it's been about 2 weeks with my canister running on it, hasn't made a difference even with the finest filter stuff in there that I can find.

all of the fish have been removed from the tank (and the angels are gone all together, I was just holding on to them for a friend). i've done more water changes than I can count. Couple times a week I put a hose into my tank and then siphon water out and put water in simultaneously until the...

lol no definitely not. my tank was a BBA machine when I first switched to plants. first thing you need to do is get the bba under control. remove as much of it as you can. you can use either H2O2 or excel to kill whatever you can't remove. you already said you lowered your lights, so that's...

what do you mean you do it opposite the light schedule?

you should be able to plant it. if it's in four leaf clover form it'll probably turn into into submerged form (although i think there are some clovers that won't do this), which only has 1 leaf instead of the 4. put the stem and roots all the way down into the substrate so that the only thing...

yes i know, just wanted to make sure he wasn't confusing them b/c sticking a CO2 line into a HOB isn't a particularly good way diffuse the CO2 hmm, how often do you change your DIY solution?

A powerhead, as in an underwater pump, or a HOB filter?

I really need to figure out exactly what is causing the cloudiness in my 15 gallon. It's either a bacteria bloom due to a combination of there being a new filter on the tank and the fact that ADA aquasoil kicks out a whole bunch of excess nutrients when its first in the tank OR it is a lesser...

My guess is that your CO2 is too low. that coupled with ammonia in the tank + decent lights = algae, especially bba. right now do you just have bba or is a mix of different algaes? how is the CO2 getting into your tank (i.e do you have it running into a glass diffuser, a powerhead, what?). you...

the ammonia is part of your problem (from my understanding, it is ammonia that is the biggest contributor to algae). how old is this tank? it doesn't seem like it has finished its cycle yet

Well, just because you're using CO2 doesn't mean you have to be using high light. But, even with it being AH supply, 55w over a 29g isn't spectacularly high light. What exactly are you doing? I found (the hard way) that the worst thing you can do is to sporadically do things (e.g. add DIY CO2...

i know, when I said "thicker" i meant in terms of stem diameter not overall size of the plant. Cryptocoryne Crispatula might work. problem is finding these plants lol

If you have either (or both) of these plants I'd like to get my hands on some :D Thanks

thanks :). the moss looks a lot nicer once it's grown out (more like the piece on the right), but because of the water clarity issues growth has kind of stagnated. how about some dwarf sag in the back, in front of the heater? that doesn't get to be more than a few inches high, keeping the V...