Algae control in ray tank

[andersp90]

What is the wave length of your light (in nm)?

How many watts?

How often do you change water? And how much?

How often do you feed? How many grams of food?

What is the color of the algee?

 

[snake8myelbo]

Those are some pretty specific questions lol. Lights I will check tonight. Food I don't weigh grams? But I can weigh it tonight. Algae is a clearish wite film. Water changes done weekly like 40-50% just started the auto drip last night

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[eklikewhoa]

White film is usally bacteria film... how's your filtration?

Age of tank?

Cycled properly?

Water change routine?

 

[snake8myelbo]

It's been up for 6 months or so? Had fish in it for 4 months. Sump with filter socks and Bio balls. Do I need more Bio media in my sump?

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[ukmike]

Hi
I've found a flag tail procholodus very useful for the battle against algae, and also a beautiful fish.
Unfortunately we had to find a new home for one after one day it decided to rasp constantly on our rays
The others are fine


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[george09]

i have 2 bushy nose plecos, and water hyasin no problems

 

[andersp90]

Those are some pretty specific questions lol. Lights I will check tonight. Food I don't weigh grams? But I can weigh it tonight. Algae is a clearish wite film. Water changes done weekly like 40-50% just started the auto drip last night

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Could be bacteria -or protein film.

Cutting down on feeding or doing more WC's should fix the problem.

 

[Owens]

Like everyone else is saying sounds like over feeding, do you leave food in your tank for long periods of time?
I had the same problem with my Bichir tank and actually found out my nitrates were crazy high.
A good cleaning, less feeding and extra water changes fixed it right up.

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[snake8myelbo]

No food left over. I'm going to add more Bio balls and more water changes

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[eklikewhoa]

Just need time for the bio to catch up, I had this problem for a little while, changing feeding regime only suppressed the problem temporarily. Water changes only helped from getting the water params on the readings but the actual happenings it seemed to make it worse.

Guess it has something to do with too much load in a small tank, Eventually the system caught up and now there is no problems with feeding or water quality as long as water changes were done.