BGA Bums

Doing a little more research on blue-green algae (BGA), I found out it's very important to manually remove what you can. Because I had been burying it in soild every day up to this point, I decided to try removing it even though some substrate came out with it. I was very happy to see the BGA had been severely limited in how well it had re-surfaced the substrate, although, of course, that meant there were far less fun little bubbles for me to free.

Since I finally made it to the store to get more sugar, I also replaced the half-batch of CO2 mix I made with a new, full batch that will hopefully last 3 or so weeks. Let's hope this brings the pH down from the rather lofty 7.8-8.0 that it's been hovering at. Also, the nitrates have dipped pretty significantly from whatever high they were at (maybe carbon filter induced), so I'll go ahead and supplement with nitrate liquid ferts as long as they appear below 5 ppm.