Question is at bottom this is just an intro lol,
I have a planted tank with two amazon swords, and a java fern.
For three months my tank was completely overtaken with green algae (hairy) covering my plants, killing leaves, covering my tank glass everyday where you couldn't see through it. It would clog my filter all the time with slimy green algae my filter pad would be encrusted with hairy algae every time I scrubbed the glass. Sometimes i'd need to stick my hands to clean the filter intake to allow water to flow.
Anyways, two weeks ago I decided to do a deep clean, I took out filter, cleaned the nasty housing and everything (Kept filter and bio material in old tank water so it wouldn't kill good bacteria. And I removed a floating Brazilian Pennywort which was one hugggge slimy thing. I threw it out because it was so bad... AND THEN THERE WAS LIGHT. I cut the brown and transparent leaves.
Two weeks have passed and my tank has NO ALGAE covering the walls of it anymore. The hair algae on my plants has turned WHITE? And the tank is clearer than ever.
**My questions are:**
1.) Does the change from green to white algae means it's dead?
2.) I have dosed it with excel flourish everyday or every other day, and I see small leaves growing again; Should I cut off all the leaves with the white algae or will it eventually detach?
3.) If I do cut more leaves, will the plant die, and where exactly should I cut?
4.) Was this most likely caused by Pennywort blocking light from bottom?
5.) Will adding more plants help keep algae away?
6.) I haven't used flourish supplement for nutrients only the flourish excel, should I add this or will that cause another algae takeover?
Tank is 20G year old tank, 38W of T5HO light one pink and one light...
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Pictures Show:
-Bad picture of what tank was like before cleaning
-Right after the cleaning (Picture with no floating plant, and green hair algae on leaves
-Today two weeks after cleaning, fuzzy white algae on some leaves, none on others.
I have a planted tank with two amazon swords, and a java fern.
For three months my tank was completely overtaken with green algae (hairy) covering my plants, killing leaves, covering my tank glass everyday where you couldn't see through it. It would clog my filter all the time with slimy green algae my filter pad would be encrusted with hairy algae every time I scrubbed the glass. Sometimes i'd need to stick my hands to clean the filter intake to allow water to flow.
Anyways, two weeks ago I decided to do a deep clean, I took out filter, cleaned the nasty housing and everything (Kept filter and bio material in old tank water so it wouldn't kill good bacteria. And I removed a floating Brazilian Pennywort which was one hugggge slimy thing. I threw it out because it was so bad... AND THEN THERE WAS LIGHT. I cut the brown and transparent leaves.
Two weeks have passed and my tank has NO ALGAE covering the walls of it anymore. The hair algae on my plants has turned WHITE? And the tank is clearer than ever.
**My questions are:**
1.) Does the change from green to white algae means it's dead?
2.) I have dosed it with excel flourish everyday or every other day, and I see small leaves growing again; Should I cut off all the leaves with the white algae or will it eventually detach?
3.) If I do cut more leaves, will the plant die, and where exactly should I cut?
4.) Was this most likely caused by Pennywort blocking light from bottom?
5.) Will adding more plants help keep algae away?
6.) I haven't used flourish supplement for nutrients only the flourish excel, should I add this or will that cause another algae takeover?
Tank is 20G year old tank, 38W of T5HO light one pink and one light...
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Pictures Show:
-Bad picture of what tank was like before cleaning
-Right after the cleaning (Picture with no floating plant, and green hair algae on leaves
-Today two weeks after cleaning, fuzzy white algae on some leaves, none on others.