Stag Horn Algae?

[planter]

Hello,

Am hoping someone would be kind enough to advise me on how to deal with what i think is stag horn algae. Been running my aquacube for a couple of months now and just recently started having trouble. I change water 75% twice a week ph 6.6 kh 4 although water parameters are difficult to keep stable with large frequent water changes. Up graded my cube by adding a second light so now have 18watts. Have been physicaly removing algae which seems to like my hair grass. Any one know an effective treatment?

Thanks

 

[nry]

Cut your lighting back a bit, if it showed up after you upgraded the lights, then you may have too much light at the moment and the algae is making the most of it. Either try cutting the lighting period down or only having the second light on for a few hours and gradually increase it.

 

[JamesC]

Need to find out if it really staghorn first as I'm not sure it is. Can you take a photo? Cand you describe what it looks like in more detail. Does it pull off easy? Take a look at my website for some identification photos.

James

 

[planter]

Thanks for the response! had a look at you web page mrc and am sure ive got staghorn due to the white greyish colour and the branching. Will post a pic soon. Thanks again

 

[Gandalf-LoJ]

I had a pretty nasty outbreak of staghorn before I went to pressurised CO2. Now I've got that stable all of the staghorn has died off along with the hair algae too

Now I just get the green spots on the glass which only really gets noticeable a week after cleaning.

I hear that flourish excel may help with algae.

 

[JamesC]

Thanks for the response! had a look at you web page mrc and am sure ive got staghorn due to the white greyish colour and the branching. Will post a pic soon. Thanks again

A few pointers. Overfed fish, dirty substrate, dirty filter, low or unstable CO2.

As suggested excel will help

James