VERY HARD algae in two gallon?

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my sister has my camera but it is not hair algae, not brown algae, not normal algae. It's very tough. It 's a freshwater two gallon with driftwood, a cory catfish and some java moss. The tank parameters are as follows:
ammonia: 0.0ppm
nitrite:0.0ppm
nitrate:10ppm
pH:7.3ppm
temperature: 75F
Substrate-eco complete

weekly water changes. Being fed bw and betta flakes. There is only one corydoras metae and he is totally fine and healthy. It started showing up about 2-3 weeks ago and is now spreading. the tank is acrylic making it very difficult to take it off w/ razor blade.
 
sounds like GSA (green spot algae). use a credit card to scrape it off. works wonders on acrylic ;)
 
ha no worries, knock yourself out. but its kinda hard without pics ;)
 
erk419;3897985;3897985 said:
You do know that corys are schooling fish and need to be kept in schools of 5 plus right?
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that wasnt his question :nilly:
 
I know it wasn't I was just pointing it out! If someone asked the same question but instead of a cory it was an oscar wouldn't you say something about that?
 
Oh ok I see I thought I would just point that out to you incase you wernt aware of it. Hell if people never pointed things out like that even if it wasn't the question how would you expect people to find that out because if they don't know then there not gonna ask because they think its fine.

As far as you question goes I second the credit card with it being acrylic your choices are not as great as it is with glass because acrylic scratchs so easly
 
You can scrape it off, but it will most likely come back unless you figure out why your getting the algae bloom. Are you over feeding? Constantly have the lights on? Is the tank anywhere near natural sunlight? Have you added any new plants/driftwood recently?
 
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