Algae Trouble

[Jephex]

I have a 10 gal tank with a few live anachris plants, 3 ghost shrimps, 2 corys, 2 dwarf gouramis, 3 zebra danios, and a plec that grows to 3 or 4 inches. Conditions have been pretty nice overall, the fish are healthy, and swim happily. I recently treated for a fungal cottony rot in my pleco with pimafix antifungal fish remedy.

Anyways, i used to have green algae that would cover the glass in random spots of my tank. There would be blotches of green algae i would scrape off every now and then. SOmebody told me to get a pleco. Within two days of my purchase, there was no algae left. Then i started treating the pleco for his rot. Now i have this greenish stringy algae coating the plants, almosy touching the surface. I have never seen this before, so it leads me to believe the pimafix had something to do with it, or mainly the pimenta racemosa in it.

Please help!

 

[CBTF]

is it hair algae?

did you leave the lights on longer while treating w/ pimafix?

 

[@ombomb]

Sorry about the crap photo, but does it look anything like this?

It sounds to me like a problem with your phosphate level. What are your nitrAte / phosphate readings?

How much light do you have on the tank?

How long do you have the lights on for?

 

[Jephex]

i usually keep lights on from about 7:15 AM to about 9 or 10 at night.

It seems to be more bushy or hairy, its darkish green-grayish.

It also has started growing on my mag-float algae scraper, which i keep in the tank on the glass.

 

[@ombomb]

Like that?

If so it's red / brush algae...

Again it's linked to the phostphate level in the tank.

I'd recommend only having the lights on for 10 hours a day, I have 5 hours on, 2 hour break and then another 5 hours on.

Plecs are high waste producers and I think it's more likely to be making the problem worse than helping.