ExcitableBoy
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Hi!
I need help to identify these two algae
The former is in the background, it is growing more extensively and faster than the latter, mostly on older leaves of emersed plants or on slow growth plants.
I hope it's simply hair algae and not the Spirogyra...
Then there is the other one in front of it, roughly in the middleground. it has a "stem" that looks thicker or let's say more rigid than the hairy one. But its particular traits are those couples of "branches" all along the "stems", they look like a V.
This is a no CO2, 50L tank that I set up two weeks ago. 30L WC twice a week, dosing NPK (DIY) + micro (EasyLife Profitto)
Lots of reason possible for these algae
I need help to identify these two algae
The former is in the background, it is growing more extensively and faster than the latter, mostly on older leaves of emersed plants or on slow growth plants.
I hope it's simply hair algae and not the Spirogyra...
Then there is the other one in front of it, roughly in the middleground. it has a "stem" that looks thicker or let's say more rigid than the hairy one. But its particular traits are those couples of "branches" all along the "stems", they look like a V.
This is a no CO2, 50L tank that I set up two weeks ago. 30L WC twice a week, dosing NPK (DIY) + micro (EasyLife Profitto)
Lots of reason possible for these algae
- still not fully cycled filter
- too much micro
- too much light. I am trying to reduce it with floating plants, but it's hard because of the surface movement. I can't even keep Phyllanthus fluitans because the flow makes it sink. I tried to make an enclosure with a hose, but it makes sink the limnobium too.
- too much organic matter: the tank is not actually new (and so is the substrate), it was one of my vivariums and most of the plants are some of those who had survived after three months without ferts, water refill and with lots of aphids.