Algae on driftwood

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Good? Bad? There's a lot ,I have a bristle nose plec some where in the tank but he hasn't made a dent in it as far as I can tell. Is brown and places turned green

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Iv seen the green algae on driftwood and love the look. Unfortunately I can't get it to grow on mine. (What's the secret?) Lol

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There's either too much sunlight hitting your tank or you're leaving the lights on too long. Either way, algae on wood isn't a big problem and you can fix it with the right fish. Many pleco species won't eat algae on wood plus they make so much waste, so IMO they're not such a good cleaner fish. Fei Feng fish are good and will eat all algae but the ones I had were either aggressive to other fish or very sensitive to water conditions and died pretty easily.

I think a great cleaning fish is a scat. Especially a tiger scat because they look better than the other scats and are true 100% freshwater fish unlike green and ruby scats. Mine ate all the algae in my tank and on my DW and he's very active. Get one if you can.
 
Scats are pretty aggressive too, not sure what to OP has in the tank to begin with either, aside from a bn pleco. I also thought all scats were brackish...

I would also like to get some green algae to grow on my grapevine, I get a bit of brown every now and again but the gibby I have is a pig and eats it all the second it shows up, and what he missed the platies eat... I have the lights on 10 hours a day and still nothing.
 
If you like the look, it's actually good for the fish.

1. Some will eat it, and it's good for them.
2. It'll eat your nitrates. I haven't seen a single reading (ammonia, nitrite, nitrate) over 0/0/0 because of the green algae growing in my tanks.

I just clean it off the front glass and vac it out of the substrate when I do water changes.
 
Cellitti said:
Iv seen the green algae on driftwood and love the look. Unfortunately I can't get it to grow on mine. (What's the secret?) Lol

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XD miss a cleaning and let my mom feed the fish hahaha, was out of town so i asked her... only tank that got algea because i didnt put the bristle nose plec in yet

Lusus_Naturae said:
not sure what to OP has in the tank to begin with either, aside from a bn pleco.
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what i had in the tank was a sen, 2 angels, a golden gourmai, bala shark then when i got home i put i the plec and bought a cat

after a scrub the only algea left was on the drift wood and i had no clue how to get it off but when i put it back into the clean tank it looked cool so i wanted to keep it...
 
i would love some green algae on my driftwood, i think im gona turn off my uv for awhile
 
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