I’ve been using the Dennerle CO2 starter kit (it’s with yeast I think, I can’t turn it off) since four weeks in my oase 60p aquarium. The chihiros aii lamp is on for 7h on 35%. I dose planted box all in one once a week. However BBA is growing slowly but steady. What should i do differently?
As I’m feeling like giving up, i dont want to buy a full co2 set.
(My fish are dying once every two weeks/once a month. I think it might be fish TB, as no medicine seems to work. I have added a UV light recently and only the older fish died, no new ones yet, but I’m still hesitant. I would have quit if not for my shrimp. But they like a planted tank and I’ve battled Staghorn algae, GSA and now I’m fighting BBA. Getting really discouraged here…)
Yes I will top up the water tomorrow!
Posted by Eowyn_95
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Keep on striving, your aquarium still looks a hundred times better than mine
Sorry about my English but as I understand that your CO2 running day and night?
Get a bunch of nerite snailsssss
pressurized CO2 is more consistent and give much better result
CO2 can help with BBA but how long do you keep light on? BBA will slowly disappear with shorter light duration
it is usually better to tolerate the slower growth of high light plant when there are a mix of low light plant
You need to research the CO2 Cycle.
How long have you had your tank for? Mine took three years to stabilise, and in the process I had all types of algae infestation, including BBA, hair algae and cynobacteria. But I never loose a fish. Theinfestations are all gone now. All I ever did was chage water at 25% once a week feed the fish and add some dried leaves from time to time.
On social media, we all are taught about the nitrogen cycle, which we resolve in a matter of weeks. But the CO2 cycle is hardly ever mentioned, and it takes years. No influencer on YouTube talks about it because there is very little marketing associated with it and no gadgets to buy: Time, soil, sand, dried leaves and fish and their food!
I love my gadgets, but not for my fish tanks. They are natural envionments.
Adding CO2 will just stop the cycle settling in, so will need to inject Co2 all your life. You also should switch it off at night.
Maybe your fish is dying of CO2 poisoning and fluctuating PH levels driven by CO2.
Father fish puts it very simply:
[Https://www.youtube.com/shorts/c5p7CoTFRAg](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/c5p7CoTFRAg)
For a more technical approach:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_cycle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_cycle)
BBA is common with diy co2 because it delivers it very inconsistently and in amount that cannot be dialed in. Consistent, steady, dialed in PPM for your particular plants and lights can prevent BBA from developing. But swings and inconsistency cause it to develop