Algae problem

[Koopa_34]

I had the same type of algae problem in my tank. i used algae fix from API, follow the directions and in a couple weeks the hair algae will start to die off.

[rkilling1]

In reguards to your fish, I have Dojo loachs and cory's in different tanks that get fully fertilized with ferts that Joy has pointed out. I have never seen them act strange and I have had the same fish for years now. Many planted folks have cory's in thier tanks.

Do you have any links to info of this subject?

SAE's like to be in groups and are never the answer to algae problems. They work great at maintaining the slight amount of algae one would expect with a heathly planted tank, but they cannot cure a tank of an algae problem.

[DallasFish]

Koopa - thank you!

Rkilling - Thank you for the wisdom! I have read numerous links about plants, algae, and ferts. My intent for the tank was to have relatively low-light plants so that I wouldn't have to go into the whole fertilizer/CO2/etc routine, as my main focus is the fish. I _think_ the root of my problem is that there was a period of 4 days where the filtration wasn't running . I saw an increase in algae on the glass and at some point the hair algae started as well.

I think I'm looking for a relatively straightforward way to get rid of most of the algae, without adding too much ongoing complexity to the maintenance process.

[DallasFish]

An update on this. I have ordered some Flourish Excel to try. I cut back the badly covered plant leaves and washed plumbing with the algae on it. Still doing weekly 25% pwcs. I am also going to switch to feeding only every other day.

I'll post an update once I start the Flourish treatments.

Thanks all as always for your help!