When I set up my tank I painted the back glass black. This stops any sunlight and the tank has a canopy. All the nice grey river rocks looked great. Had them piled into lots of caves for my cichlids and siliconed together. Now they are covered in a dark algae making the tank quite dark. I run a 4ft & 2ft growlight for a few hrs morning & night. I run two 2000L powerhead canister filters. I use an Algone satchet in the filters but this hasn't seemed to helped. Any ideas??
Brown Algae
- Thread starter CooyaFNQ
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Is the algae only at the rocks? Thenyou can take them up and scrub it off.
It is anyhow many fishes who eats algae: Otocinclus, SAE, applesnails etc. In some cases you can turn the light off for some days and the algae is gon. I did that to cyanobacteria and they did not reappeard.
It is anyhow many fishes who eats algae: Otocinclus, SAE, applesnails etc. In some cases you can turn the light off for some days and the algae is gon. I did that to cyanobacteria and they did not reappeard.
brown algae usally appears with a new setup once its well establised it wont come back youll have to clean it by hand wait for a month you dont want do it twice
i just looked at your pics if its the mixed african tank you dont need a grow light for that single sword plant that room should provide enogh reflective uv theyre a low light plant use a reg stick the grow light encourages green algae