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Hi, I think this is my first tank post. I've gone long enough already without asking for help. i don't know if there's a specific structure for this but here's the info. 30 gal jc&p aquarium light, only on like the second setting of nine. 6 hr photoperiod. half topsoil mix, capped with pool...

I have a 10 gallon porcelain bowl set up that receives very little light. Until recently, the only plants were a couple of anubias. About six months ago I noticed the sudden appearance of what to me looked like brown algae around the surface of the bowl. The funny thing it seemed to favor one...

I've been experimenting with a ten gallon Chinese porcelain bowl as a suitable aquarium over the years. I'd had pretty good success using a Fluval cannister set up and a couple of sprigs of anubias barteri The bowl gets about an hour of direct sunlight a day. Things were fine until I started...

Hi guys, I have been struggling with brown algae for nearly a year now in a 10 gallon low tech that I started. I don't find that I get algae blooms like I did early on, but for months, I clean off my plants, then slowly and steadily, they are recoated in diatoms over about a 2 week period. This...