Algae Attack!

[Esfa]

So i took my juwel filter out as it was huge and ugly... but my water went black after it from the accumulated dirt.

I figured that the dirt would hold a lot of the bacteria, so i didnt do a water change right away...

I now have BGA, saghorn, hair algae...

I cant do a black out for the BGA cause its heavily planted... what should I do? Would cherry, ghost and ammano shrimp eat it?

I'm gunna be doing a huge water change tomorrow, and take most of the plants out and get the algae off them.. but the stargrass is riddled with it, so i doubt it will go too well.

 

[Liam]

You can still do the blackout with plants, they and the fish are fine with three days without light. I just remove it from plants with an airline hose during water changes but if there is a lot of it you would need to do a blackout for the bga. Staghorn and hair algae wont be killed by the blackout though.

 

[Colin_T]

blue green algae grows from excess nutrients. try do daily water changes for a couple of weeks and syphon the stuff out each day.
Cut back on feeding dry food to the fish.

 

[Esfa]

blue green algae grows from excess nutrients. try do daily water changes for a couple of weeks and syphon the stuff out each day.
Cut back on feeding dry food to the fish.

yeah.. i havnt been dosing or doing CO2 properly for a few weeks cause of revising... that's all caught up on me now.