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How to prevent algae & ammonia in planted aquarium for a month?

Updated On September 23rd, 2025

How to manage planted aquarium if I have gone for 1 month from to home at job ?.....And which things to do that my planted aquarium (75 litre ) will be prevented to algae and amonia ?

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Answered By Andrea M. Brodie, DVM

Veterinarian

Published on November 26th, 2018

You can buy an automatic feeder which you should set to about 3/4 of the normal feeding amount. There are fish that eat algae, you may want to put in an algae eating fish. If you have a working set up (reliable heat, filter and oxygenation) then you should not have to worry about ammonia. Change 1/3 of the water before you leave, check the filter, remove all mulch from the gravel, and the aquarium should be fine.

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