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My water is at 81°. Is that kinda warm and would that also cause algea to grow?

That is a good idea to get a power head so that nothing can settle. The algae doesn't come off easily. It's stuck on the plants pretty good. Even if a try to scratch at it a little it stays. I'll probably go buy a power head and some liquid co2 today since I get payed haha. Hopefuly that hwlps.

Here's a close up pic I just took that will hopefully help. And in the second pic you can see I have some new leaves coming in that look pretty healthy as of now.

It looks the diatoms, Brown algea. It has kind of a scratchy texture to it. I recently started using API root tabs and excell. Also upgraded my lights to 3 CFL 100 watt equivalent each at 5000k. I will have to get a new pic tonight after work.

It's a red ish algae on a green plant

I have some algae on some of my plants and rock and I was thinking of trying to do some spot treatment with peroxide. I've seen people talk about doing it but I'm am nervous to try it in my tank. If anyone has any good advice on how to do this I would really appreciate it.

Had trouble posting the pictures before but here they are now

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Just made some new lights for my tank. Tell me what you think. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I337 using Aquarium Advice mobile app

I'll have to go get one. I have the anacharis pretty spaced out for the most part. Should I bunch them up more?

I'm not sure what my water quality is like because I don't have any test equipment. But it's the actual plant. Some pieces have kinda died but then new pieces start growing off of it and other pieces just grow like crazy. But I have an amazon sword, some crypts and Anubia plant that are growing...

In my 29 gallon freshwater aquarium I have some anacharis. It has grown very fast and then I have cut it and replanted which has also grown very fast but now some has stopped growing and turned brown while other pieces are still growing a lot. I'm not sure what is causing it to turn brown and...

Hi my name is Ehren and I'm new to aquarium advice. I have a 29 gallon freshwater aquarium with some plants in it as well. Through aquarium advice I would just like to learn more about aquariums to help mine thrive.