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Originally Posted by aznufo
the fact that you need to scrape algae off your glass day in/out does not resemble your algae receding, but actually thriving... adding plants takes out a DIMUNITIVE amount of nitrates, but does not help much in clearing up algae. ..
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actualy plants do take a heck of a lot out of the water.. I for one cannot grow algae in my tank and I over feed like a mad man, and add fertalizer like it is going out of style in my fresh water tank. but saying this you do have to go with the right kinda of plants. faster growing stem plants are the best. I suppose if you had a take full of crypts and java fern you might get some algae. If done right, which I did for a test when I set up this tank plants will adsorb enuf nutrents to add a wack of fish and never see a cycle. I did this with a 37 gal tank, put the water and plants in waited 2 days and added 10 lemmon tetra's 2 angel fish a dwarf groume *sp, and a couple others I can't remember. tested for amonia, nitrate and nitrite 3 times a day for 4 weeks and never got a reading whats so ever. so not that I recomend this method of fast stocking but if you are willing to watch it and spend the time and money on the right kinds of plants it can be very sucessfull.
Steve
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