I have a question, I have what looks to be cladophora algae in my tank (strong strands of hair like algae) it's starting to take over I have to remove it every week, I cant remove it off my more fragile plants like pearl grass or it up roots the plant or breaks it as well as my buceps, I have done research on this type but nothing im doing is working, I've added a 425 gph hydor to go along with my 2 aquaclear hob's on my 55 gallon an (AC 110 and a AC 70) so I highly doubt flow is the issue, I got all the other algae under control by increasing my light intensity and photo period and ferts as well as chemiclean due to my plants weren't getting enough light to grow so the bga took over but that's gone now, but now i have this which is suffocating the plants if I don't carefully remove it and believe me it's a pain to do so. How can I rid of this? I do not use co2, I dose 8-10 ml thrive a week with a 50% weekly water change I don't have any dead undergrowth but I do trim if I see what might be a bad leaf, I know algaefix is recommended but I honestly want to know what I can do to fix it without chemicals as I did also use chemiclean for the bga, I don't have an much experience as many of you as well as as much money invested as some of you I just want to save what I do have, I did plant a wisteria that I topped from the recently added wisteria I added in a spot that will eventually over shadow the buceps and the bad area that has a lot of the cladophora or at least that's what I think it is (even though the spot I planted the wisteria in is far from ideal, it's in the middle of the tank) , can someone give me a concrete answer to what this is and what I can do?
I'm over my quota for pics so here's an imgur link
Cladophora? https://imgur.com/a/O0qcYpQ
I'm over my quota for pics so here's an imgur link
Cladophora? https://imgur.com/a/O0qcYpQ