VORTEIL'S NANO-CUBE 6

[Varanus]

I'm glad your tank has stabilized, but I'd bet it would stabilize even more if you spread out the feedings to every three weeks or even once a month. Once a week just seems way too often and may have contributed to your problems. Arguably as long as you have visible algae growing on the sides of the tank you shouldn't need to feed at all.

[Mustafa]

Welcome to the forum and thanks for sharing your experiences and pictures!

Just two things to add for now...I would remove all the leaves from the tank. As opposed to freshwater shrimp tanks leaves really don't help with anything at all and can actually be detrimental as Supershrimp don't like things like tannins and other organics in the water. That's just my personal experience from one of my trials.

Also, don't worry about feeding spirulina..pure or not. They don't need it. Any kind of quality fish food will do. What's most important is to not feed too much. What caused your algae problem was probably a combination of feeding too much/too often and using what appears to be live rock (which comes with lots of organics in it that release nutrients into the water). If I were you I would simply stop feeding until you see a significant reduction in algae. And yes, the macroalgae definitely contributes towards fighting hair algae! In your pics it basically tripled in size in less than a month!

[AnotherKevin]

I like that wall of rocks. Looks like a perfect habitat for them.

[Mustafa]

Thanks for the pics again! How's the tank now? Still not feeding?

[MrsT]

Beautiful tank Vorteil. Is that a blue shrimp or light reflection?

[MrsT]

Thanks. Just the light reflection. Wish the shrimp was blue. The tank's doing great. The cheato is staring to get to be a little too much. I'll trim it down soon. I probably have a dozen or so baby opae floating around at this time.

I see. I thought oh wow a beautiful blue haha. You might want to be careful trimming chaeto, there might be babies hiding in there

[Mustafa]

Aweseome! Great to see everything is still going well! Anyone itching to feed all the time....just look at the tank! Over 6 months without food...and there's reproduction!