Yes usman, I use CO2.
I remember you used to find some interesting plants at the sungai. How did they work out?

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Just realized that Dophin is a Malaysian brand. I never knew that.

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Wanted to post this BBA update for sometime, but did not have the time (until now).

So in the first pic, I applied Excel at full strength to the Buce using a brush. Yes, I removed it from the tank first, and retied it to another stone. You can see the result. All the BBA cleared from it after about a week, but I also notice the plant shed a lot of leaves and that leaf looked like burnt by acid. The other leaves are doing better though, but there's no doubt that full strength Excel does the job, but also harms the plant to an extent.

Another thing I did was to increase my CO2 to 30ppm. And to stabilize the PH as much as possible during the photo period. For the record, I was pumping 2.5bps for 10 hours. Now increased to 4bps and started injecting 2 hours before lights on, so in total its 12 hours.

Its been almost 2 weeks now with this new CO2 setup. For those who are interested, this had a positive effect on controlling BBA and I thought I'd share this for those who are also combating BBA. It have receded, not fully, but I can see visible and conclusive results that CO2 really does get BBA under control. I'll try to post some more updates later.

Cheers.

I see, decided to cut all the leaves and see how it goes.
Anyway, I have some extra equipments for sale - T5 light and skimmers (large and small), link at below.

My tank is about 5 months old. But i just got the rasboras last week. Could you define stable?

I had cherry barbs last time but they're not shrimp friendly. I bought like 20 cherry shrimps and dumped them into my tank. Those cherry barbs had them for supper and breakfast. Those red cherry barbs are males, those brownish ones are females.

Very nice!! How long have you keep them? I need to choose some fishes for my rescaped 60cm. Somehow I always get attracted to cherry barb.

When you first bought it, it should be quite pale yeah? That's what I always see in the first shop. Until you put it in planted tank and well fed, it will become redder, and even redder when it's ready for mating.

I used to have them as well, I like how they always swim through holes and plants to find food, which is dangerous for baby shrimps.

Usually in the shop, they're stressed and they'lll look pale. After a few days or maybe a week, it'll turn full red. Like this --->
Cherry barbs are fun to watch when they're schooling but they're not really shrimp friendly. I've even seen them nibble on my HCs before.
Cherry shrimps and cherry barbs does not mix. I've seen my cherry barbs attacking my amanos before too.

What shrimps do you have in your tank? Sell some to me at a discounted price if it's overpopulated.

Any disadvantaged of having normal tank.instead of aluminum 1?
My friend recommended me to get aluminum 1...

One of the reason i get a small cylinder is becoz i.don want to caught ny moms attention...

actually very easy only. just put in like 2-3 assassin snails. can get rid of them easily, but make sure you remove all other snails la.

Apparently it doesn't, mine is quite tannin...

I am facing this issue also and reading from internet really makes you headache... If it's on your hairgrass, yes, you can just trim the top part. Mine is stucked on my driftwood and moss... Some ppl suggested higher CO2, some suggested using seachem phosguard, some said h2o2.. 

Guess I have the liberty to play with the zero algae as my tank is without any fauna right now.

It depends, bro. On your tank's bio load. For shrimp only tanks or nano tank with fishes, I think ok. For 2 footer planted tank with fishes, then no.

From the color I see, too much CO2.  Target is lime green, but I think yours look like Lemon Yellow already
2 parts to the equation. Part 1 - lime green CO2. Part 2 - stable CO2 during photo period.

This means you need to start injecting CO2 before lights on. So once lights on, your drop checker is almost lime green. So maybe 1-2 hours later, it becomes lime green and stays that way until lights out.

You need to play with your setup - for me, I started injecting 2 hours before lights on, 4 bps (3 footer, 160 liters tank) and cut 15 minutes before lights off. Not saying you should follow my timing, but you need to find your own setup to try to keep your CO2 as stable as possible during the photo period.

If you have shrimps, observe closely. My shrimp activity, feeding, breeding - all drop like crazy. 3-4 weeks later, no sight of BBA.
I have since set my CO2 back to its original setup but a wee bit higher. Its been 3 or 4 weeks now - finally saw shrimplets during WC yesterday. I believe this is all related to CO2.

Good luck.