Snails won't do that much to your bioload.
if you test water, and change water when needed, in the amount needed, you should be fine.
Black beard algae?
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Snails won't do that much to your bioload.
if you test water, and change water when needed, in the amount needed, you should be fine.
All I do is dose liquid certs every time I do a wc.
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Having done battle with BBA for two years.....spot treating will not cut it. It is an imbalance somewhere. Until you correct it, you will never be rid of it. If I had to guess, judging by the pics and what you have said, you have mostly slow growing plants and a poor light source but you are adding ferts weekly. The plants can't grow because of the poor lighting, and the BBA is loving the ferts!
You don't need a CO2 system with so many liquid CO2 supplements on the market. I use API's liquid CO2. There's lots of others out there as well.
Sure a gas CO2 system is better for high light requirement plants, but for lower light plants, not so much.
The issue with anything but a small tank (say 10g or less) is the cost of liquid carbon supplements can start to be prohibitive.
Unless you know of a good cheap solution.
The recommended dosage of API liquid CO2 is 1mL per 10gal. A 16oz bottle lasts me ~2 months or so dosing my 10g and 55g. It's $10-13 per 16oz bottle depending on where you shop.
Cheaper yet would be to buy gallon jugs of Metricide 14.
