• You are viewing the forum as a Guest, please login (you can use your Facebook, Twitter, Google or Microsoft account to login) or register using this link: Log in or Sign Up

algae on vallis

aliclarke86

aliclarke86

Member
Joined
21 Mar 2013
Messages
1,488
After all the reading i have done so far i can't put my finger on what algae this is....sorry as i'm sure this has been covered but is this hair or staghorn is something different?

i appreciate that all the material is available for me to figure this out myself but i'm going round in circles in my head :sick:

I have been very "lucky" with algae in this tank and have managed to get away with a small amount of GSA only for these first 2 months. Anyway any advice would be great.

Tank is 60lt
i'm running eheim classic 250
CO2 1bps 1 hour before lights on and off 1hour before lights out
lights are 2 x 24 watt t5 one is red and one is 10000k ( T5 Fish Tank Lights Two Bulbs - All Pond Solutions ) they are on for 2 hours from 13:00 till 20:00 (7hr)
i dose 2.5ml easycarbo and 2ml profito daily
2x weekly water change
23°c water

20130509_173823.jpg


full tank layout

photo.jpg


Thanks

Ali
 
Looks like stag horn algae to me. I usually clean my filters when this appears, and dose with excel.
 
OK thanks guys

I will start with a filter clean and up the easycarbo a bit then in a couple weeks I will start dosing EI to try even out the nutrients. Would the lacking nutrients in profito lead to this outbreak? Also would the same lead to the green spot I am getting at substrate level on the glass?
 
Low phosphates will increase the likelihood of green spot algae, yes.
 
Should I remove the leaves or would it die back if I manage to fix the problem?
 
No :( still fighting it I'm doing more frequent water changes like 20% every 2 days and cleaned the filter and the substrate the best I can without up rooting all the HC but if keeps coming back slowly
 
Get hold of a few fish/shrimp that eat algae (eg: mollies, Siamese Algae eater, 'amano' shrimp). Do you know what the nitrate reading is in your tank?
 
The tank has Japonica and crs at the moment. And my nitrate readings are around 5 to 10 ppm using API test kit. I think I have got a handle on it in that it doesn't seem to be getting worse but then its not going away either
 
I have done just that and it hasn't effected the hc at the moment only the staghorn I thought it may kill the vallis nana but that also seems to be OK after the carbo bath
 
aliclarke86 said:
The tank has Japonica and crs at the moment. And my nitrate readings are around 5 to 10 ppm using API test kit. I think I have got a handle on it in that it doesn't seem to be getting worse but then its not going away either
Click to expand...
Staghorn is quite stubborn, so the only way is to keep scrubbing it off with your fingers every few days. Adding Excel and other nutrients to help the plants grow will help bring the algae in check.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top