algae issues

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Lurker79

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I am still relatively new to planted tanks and was fortunate enough to get one that was already very well planted. I now have issues with multiple types of algae. First of all I also believe I have columnaris in the same tank and it is pretty nasty. I have lost 11 fish in 3 days and have a thread in unhealthy fish for that. As far as the tank in concerned. It is a 90g I have 2 65w 6700 T5 bulbs and a fluval fx5. I was leaving the lights on for 8-9 hours a day but I cut that back almost a month ago to about 6. I use flourish and api co2 booster currently but I am trying to find a better balance because some of the plants aren't looking as healthy as I would like them. I think the two types of algae that I have are beard and gsa. The gsa is pretty mild for now and the nerites are eating it, but the beard is trying to take over and nothing that I have eats it. I was looking for SAE's but I can't add them right now anyway with the columnaris. Can anyone tell me if this is beard algae and if there is anything I can do about it?
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