Riverside Scaper
New Member
Hi guys,
I’m a bit confused now as I initially thought I had diatoms with my tank being densely planted with decent water circulation and co2 injection. However I’ve been wondering if this could be a type of hair algae? I’ve dealt with hair algae in the past and it has always been the bright green filamentous algae… this stuff is brown and fuzzy looking.
From all the descriptions of diatoms I’ve read, it’s dust like and appears on plants, hardscape and glass. This stuff is just on the plants and carpet/soil substrate.
The tank is about 6 weeks old, 3 of which has been planted densely. It is filtered by two precycled Oase bio master 600 filters with an inline co2 diffuser on each. The outlet of each filter is on each end of the tank giving me a nice clockwise water flow and co2 distribution all over. I dose APT Complete as per the instructions and carry out a daily 80% water change as the tank is still new.
So far I’ve been using a toothbrush to manually remove and siphon away as much of this stuff as I can during my daily water changes.
Can anyone please help ID this algae and how to best tackle it?
I’m a bit confused now as I initially thought I had diatoms with my tank being densely planted with decent water circulation and co2 injection. However I’ve been wondering if this could be a type of hair algae? I’ve dealt with hair algae in the past and it has always been the bright green filamentous algae… this stuff is brown and fuzzy looking.
From all the descriptions of diatoms I’ve read, it’s dust like and appears on plants, hardscape and glass. This stuff is just on the plants and carpet/soil substrate.
The tank is about 6 weeks old, 3 of which has been planted densely. It is filtered by two precycled Oase bio master 600 filters with an inline co2 diffuser on each. The outlet of each filter is on each end of the tank giving me a nice clockwise water flow and co2 distribution all over. I dose APT Complete as per the instructions and carry out a daily 80% water change as the tank is still new.
So far I’ve been using a toothbrush to manually remove and siphon away as much of this stuff as I can during my daily water changes.
Can anyone please help ID this algae and how to best tackle it?