250L Tropheus Duboisi Tank

[Mastiffman/ Duramax7Man7]

Love watching them eat off the rounds stuck to the glass.

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They look great mate...nice clear water too...you think the purigen is removing the tannins or did you shoot the vid the day after water change? Thanks for the updates 👍

[pseuro]

Sept 12, 2017 12:28:29 GMT -5 phish said:

Can u take a pics of the spirulina forte food container n where can I purchase that from? Thanks

This is what it looks like. I bought mine from a LFS in Hong Kong so I don't think that'll help you. Anyway Tropical is a large brand in Europe and many European tropheus keepers use their products exclusively with success.

Here's a bit more info on the product
tropical.pl/tropical/product/super-spirulina-forte-tablets

[phish]

Thku

[Mastiffman/ Duramax7Man7]

Omega One makes a pretty nice algae waffer too!

They are one of our sponsors! I suggest supporting them as they help to keep the forum moving.

They can come in 3lbs tubs and I can get that for you for a good price. I'm a distributor for Omega One.

[pseuro]

Sept 13, 2017 8:11:47 GMT -5 ... said:

They look great mate...nice clear water too...you think the purigen is removing the tannins or did you shoot the vid the day after water change? Thanks for the updates 👍

Oh man, you wouldn't believe how effective the purigen is. I've captured some before and after photos of my tank, take a guess which one is before and after 😉

Only thing I regret about this tank is that I should have gotten something with starphire glass =( Anyone have any ideas how to remove the 'green' from the glass? perhaps change the temperature of the lighting?

[Mastiffman/ Duramax7Man7]

WOW, yeah that's a big difference. This is why most people don't use wood in their Tang tanks. It discolors the water as well as can lower the Ph.

I use Carbon myself. I tried Purigen and the bags that they have to be used with suck as they degrade at the seems once cleaned numerous times. The beads start leaking from the bag. it seemed like more of a hassle cleaning it regularly than anything. I plan on making carbon reactors for my power filtered tanks. I use carbon in bags at this point and have to many projects going on to start on the reactors but soon!

Water looks great though!

[pseuro]

Sept 19, 2017 15:12:54 GMT -5 Mastiffman/ Duramax7Man7 said:

WOW, yeah that's a big difference. This is why most people don't use wood in their Tang tanks. It discolors the water as well as can lower the Ph.

I use Carbon myself. I tried Purigen and the bags that they have to be used with suck as they degrade at the seems once cleaned numerous times. The beads start leaking from the bag. it seemed like more of a hassle cleaning it regularly than anything. I plan on making carbon reactors for my power filtered tanks. I use carbon in bags at this point and have to many projects going on to start on the reactors but soon!

Water looks great though!

Thanks for the tip with the original purigen bags. I'll keep an eye out when I clean them later, or to replace the bags with something else.

Small little update! So I'm finally getting some green algae! Went through a few weeks of diatoms, added a bit of Seachem Phosguard to absorb phosphates and silicates with success, 24 hours later the diatoms have slowed down to controllable levels. Several days later I see spots of green on the wood/rocks!!! I've been hoping to grow some natural green algae for the fish to graze on. Funny how usually people want to avoid algae but we want to grow them  😎

[Mastiffman/ Duramax7Man7]

Awesome and yep! That would be ideal. Algae does feed on nitrates and Phosphates, so once you get a good algae base established let that phosphate be food. You may even see a major growth of green algae after that. Looking forward to the progress pics.

Try to take a take shot each time from the same spot. That would be super cool to watch it change gradually.

How many hours are you leaving your light on again?

[pseuro]

Sept 20, 2017 11:06:03 GMT -5 Mastiffman/ Duramax7Man7 said:

Awesome and yep! That would be ideal. Algae does feed on nitrates and Phosphates, so once you get a good algae base established let that phosphate be food. You may even see a major growth of green algae after that. Looking forward to the progress pics.

Try to take a take shot each time from the same spot. That would be super cool to watch it change gradually.

How many hours are you leaving your light on again?

Sounds good, yeah I'll leave everything as is for now since the green algae is growing and diatoms are gone. Let the green algae establish first =)

Haha i'll try my best to get the same shot as the algae grows.

Tank light is on timer for 10 or 11 hours I forget what I last set it as.