Algae growing on new planted tank

[Dieboldly]

looks to be diatoms very common with new setups will go away with time a lot of fish will eat them.

Bad part about adding those smaller algae eaters is that I'm using it as a grow out tank for my vampire fish and bass to out in my 150 gallon tank with another large bass that will eat them at the size they are

 

[altumangel]

4 t5 bulbs in a 40g is way to much. that is the main problem for algae growing on the glass and plants. if u want to keep this light ur gonna need a lot more plants to compete with algae. no amount of oto will fix the algae problems. with your light its consider high tech. with that light u will need tons of plants and fertz co2 to balance out the tank. or u need to take out 2 bulbs to cut the light down. the plants u have in there are easy to grow low light plants u dont need that much light. so u either have to cut back the light OR get a ton more plants to compete with algae.

 

[Dieboldly]

4 t5 bulbs in a 40g is way to much. that is the main problem for algae growing on the glass and plants. if u want to keep this light ur gonna need a lot more plants to compete with algae. no amount of oto will fix the algae problems. with your light its consider high tech. with that light u will need tons of plants and fertz co2 to balance out the tank. or u need to take out 2 bulbs to cut the light down. the plants u have in there are easy to grow low light plants u dont need that much light. so u either have to cut back the light OR get a ton more plants to compete with algae.

I can cut back the light to 2. I'm okay with that. This light was really only temp till I have enough saved to buy a new tank light for this tank.

 

[Dieboldly]

So I went and took out 2 of the bulbs from the grow light. I cleaned the algae off as much as I could so let's see what happens now

 

[Drx6x]

with diatoms its mostly a waiting game usually will fix them selves in a months time. reducing the light will help you not get the green allergy that usually pops up after the diatom phase. more plants and floating plants will also help a lot. frogbit is a nice fast grower that will soak up the nutrients before algae can.

 

[Yohanon]

I would favor nerite snails over pond snails. They cannot reproduce in fresh water, so no worries about a snail population explosion in your tank.