Horrifying algae... Help!
- Thread starter Chaseg03
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Looks like too much light from the color of the algae. What filter are you running if any. Big WC sometimes causes the tank to go into a mini cycle.
Reduce food and light. Maybe add some plants to suck up excess nutrients.
Algae on glass is totally normal but...
I find doing frequent regular water changes as a regular routine, often reduces algae, removing 30% of old water every 2 days usually works for me.
This can be specially effective if you you tend to over feed, as suggested above.
And overfeeding is the most common cause.
Most fish can live very healthy lives on about 1/4 of the amount of food most people regularly provide.
another "less" likely scenario below
Some water providers add phosphate to help keep lead from leaching into the drinking water, and phosphate "could" be a factor, as algae thrives on it.
Check with your local water provider to see if phosphate is part of the normal treatment process.
There are phosphate removing filtration aids available.
Remove the algae from glass, then use a uv filter.. Cheapest should be sunsun
Yep, while it doesn't completely get rid of all algae, it will kill what's free floating in the water. Then you will be able to see what your dealing with on your tank and decor surfaces.
Also, how long did you blackout the tank. You probably need to blackout the tank for a few weeks before you see differences. I would also pay attention to light from windows because that can be a light supply too. I keep the lights in my main 220 aquarium off at all times unless I'm feeding or showing it to people. I have no algae in it at all. I also have a 29 gallon grow out tank that I used to keep the lights on and it got brown algae everywhere within a few weeks. My last ten gallon tank had lots of brown algae as well until I got a clown pleco in it. He keeps it pretty clean.
