Algae on plants

[Peggaweng]

Hi all,

Just a quick one I hope? I seem to be getting some hairy algae growing on my plants and even with less light, I already do 20% weekly water changes and careful with feeding it just won't go away? Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you,

Gary.

 

[mfdrookie516]

What kind of lighting? What size tank? Dosing any ferts or injecting co2? Is it hairy like this by any chance?

 

[Peggaweng]

Hi,

It is 125 litre with Fluval GLO lighting unit,
One Power-Glo Fluorescent Aquarium Tube 20W 60.96cm (24in) T8
One Aqua-Glo Fluorescent Aquarium Tube 20W 60.96 cm (24in) T8. It is similar you your pics but will post one soon to be sure. I am not using ferts or injecting co2. Thanks.

 

[Darwin]

if it isnt over way sensitive plants you could do the hydrogen peroxide trick. if you dont mind taken them out and doing a dip or doing my "Treating plants in place" trick then.
http://www.aquariumadvice.com/forums/f12/treating-individual-plants-in-place-141610.html
In the end you must find out what it is that is causing this issue or it will come back within days. You can also get fish/shrimp that eat the stuff.

here is a link I found usefull also; Greater Washington Aquatic Plant Association » Algae in the Planted Aquarium

 

[mfdrookie516]

Yeah, I must say that H2O2 definitely got rid of the majority of mine. I coudn't find a dropper or syrenge, so I used a short piece of air line tubing, sucked some up, then blew is on to the area... It's kind of fun watching it fizz to. I've noticed a few dead java fern leaves, maybe I over did it? I've heard that Flourish excel works just as good, but can wreck havoc on certain plants (I wanna say vals?).

 

[Pecktec]

Wouldn't the algae use the CO2 to grow? Or does it just give the other plants what they need to compete?

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