ATS For 120 Gallon Tank.

Hello,

An update I can see algae started to grow on the screen quite rapidly now. I am doing weekly maintainence of the screen as of now to trigger the growth.

Also I add few turbo snail and hermit crabs and they are doing they job of eating the algae of the rock very efficiently but no3 is not reducing that is the concern.

 

Currently NItrates are at 50 ppm where as Phosphate are around 0.10-0.25.

I am feeding one pinch of flake twice a day.

 

An update. I see yellow coloured algae growing on the screen.

 

Hello guys,

It's been 3 months that I have not updated. Well my po4 and nitrates are very much in control now & I can grow light green algae on the screen but the issue is the algae doesn't grow in the centre of the screen. It basically grows along the corner and on the top & bottom of screen middle centre portion is still very much naked and It makes me a little bit frustrated also.

What should I do to make algE cover up the whole screen? Also I am planning to get a mandarin very soon so is my ATS will produce enough pods for it?

Please reply.

Thanks

Abhishek

 

Hello,

I haven't changed the configuration of my led.
I am using 11 660 nm Chinese led on both side of screen. Running them @ 600 ma.

Currently I am running them for 18 hours per day.

I clean my screen every Sunday.

Thanks

 

I have a option of reducing the intensity of led to just half. Have Meanwell LDD 350H with me but I will reduce the photo period for a time will now run my lights for 12-14 hours max.

One more thing when it can be assume that my ATS is producing enough pods to feed one scooter or dragonet?

 

Hi all

Well my ATS is working quite fine and I have to clean the screen every week but due to some of my business trips I was out of the town for a month or so. Due to some power cuts and other issue my ATS was having problem of water feeding from main tank which results in some hair algae started to grow in the main tank only though I rectify water feeding problem but looks like algae has got his hold on few rocks specially.

I have tested the no3 and po4 of my tank after this and finds both the value at zero now my concern is whether my ATS will be able to clear the algae from the display tank or I have to employ some other method?

My photo period of ATS is 14 hour currently & one of my friend advice me to dose some nitrate to balance the red field method so that po4 can be effectively removed from the tank.

What should I do?

 

Ok so this means I need not to worry. It will be clear with a time?

What to do with the algae growing on the rocks should I remove it manually or wait for it to go of its own?

Thanks

 

Good. Giving it time to get clear it off of its own

 

One thing which is bothering me. What type of nutrient are released by the rocks?

My current photo period of ATS is 18 hours and that of the tank is 10 hour out of which 4 hour is of actinic should I further increase the photo period of ATS and decrease the tank?

This algae growing on rocks is not a good sight for my eyes I want to eliminate ASAP.