What Do You Do When ...

[This Old Spouse]

We were out of town for just over a week, and during that time a friend came in to feed the fish. When we got home 4 days later, I realized the lights had been left on the entire time. Now algae has overtaken these tanks, and I need some help eliminating it! I did large water changes right away, and it looks much better, but for instance my anubias is covered in a dark slimy kind of stuff, and it won't come off with a brush or rubbing. Is there an overall cure or do I need to wait it out? Start from scratch? Ugh.

 

[Prime Ordeal]

Put your BN and cherry shrimp in the tank, don't feed for a week and complete blackout for a few days.

 

[This Old Spouse]

Thanks, Prime. I've done large water changes and with the lighting back to normal it seems to be clearing up.

Another question, my 29g has the green algae on the glass that I have to scrape off ... is there a cure for this? And it's weird ... it stops 2/3 of the way up the glass. There's a definite line there.