Algae Problem ( Bba? )

[FrankyFish]

HI,
I have a planted aquarium. In the past month I have seen these algae take more and more over my plants. I am using Co2 Injection by using the homemade recipe found on this site that I change every week. What can I do to improve (read : Eradicate ) The algae


Thanks!

 

[natalie265]

I was having an algae problem in my planted tank for several months--algae growing on my amazon sword (as in your top photo) and also on the glass. I launched a multiprong assault and i'm happy to report that algae is no longer a problem in my tank. Here are the steps that i took:

Added DIY CO2
Added more plants, including fast growers. Apparantly some fast growing plants actually secrete a chemical that retards the growth of algae?
Reduced the amount of time my lights were on from 14 hours down to 11 or 12.
Added Amano shrimp, red cherry shrimp and nerrite snails. All supposedly good algae eaters.

 

[FrankyFish]

I was having an algae problem in my planted tank for several months--algae growing on my amazon sword (as in your top photo) and also on the glass. I launched a multiprong assault and i'm happy to report that algae is no longer a problem in my tank. Here are the steps that i took:

Added DIY CO2
Added more plants, including fast growers. Apparantly some fast growing plants actually secrete a chemical that retards the growth of algae?
Reduced the amount of time my lights were on from 14 hours down to 11 or 12.
Added Amano shrimp, red cherry shrimp and nerrite snails. All supposedly good algae eaters.

I already use only 8 hours lighting, would that be enough?

 

[Geoff1991]

Apparantly some fast growing plants actually secrete a chemical that retards the growth of algae?

Never heard that but they will use up nutrients before the algae does.

A tank full of healthy plants isnt good news for algae. So get some fast growing stem plants and get your other plants growing well, make sure they have enough light co2 and nutrients. Then get rid of as much of the algae as you can and do extra water changes.

Thats your first option. The second is a blackout, this is where you remove as much algae as you can manually. Cover your whole tank in some sort of material so no light can get in at all, (with your tank lights off) and leave it for 3-5 days, resisting the temptation to peek. Then uncover the tank and do a water change and your algae problem should now be non existent.

 

[FrankyFish]

All right, I will try this out

Thanks a bunch.