Algae removal.

[AnthD]

Waiting for my tank to cycle and have got a bit of a problem with algae, its not on the glass but growing from the plants (both plastic at the back and live at the front) was wondering 2 things:
1 The best way to get rid of this whilst im cycling
2 what would be the best fis/invert to get to keep this under control once its all set up and stocked.
Its only a 10g tank so dont want too much as i dont want to starve anything with it being a small tank.

Also, whilst looking at fish yesterday i noticed the lfs had some moss balls, these worth getting?
Tia.

 

[Prieto]

Waiting for my tank to cycle and have got a bit of a problem with algae, its not on the glass but growing from the plants (both plastic at the back and live at the front) was wondering 2 things:
1 The best way to get rid of this whilst im cycling
2 what would be the best fis/invert to get to keep this under control once its all set up and stocked.
Its only a 10g tank so dont want too much as i dont want to starve anything with it being a small tank.

Also, whilst looking at fish yesterday i noticed the lfs had some moss balls, these worth getting?
Tia.

To combat algae we can do a few things: to decrease N and P with water changes, reduce the light and by competition (fast grow plants).
For each person and each tank there is a best option, but you can use more than one strategy.[emoji6]

 

[AnthD]

To combat algae we can do a few things: to decrease N and P with water changes, reduce the light and by competition (fast grow plants).
For each person and each tank there is a best option, but you can use more than one strategy.[emoji6]

I was overlighting. I had light on for 12 hoirs a day to try and help the live plants take. Ive cut that right down. Ive also started doing 10% water changes daily.
Thing i dont want to do is be fighting a losing battle with it once stocked, want to cause as little disturbance as possible once the little fellas are in. So was thinking maybe 1 or 2 small fish that would deal with it for me. Looking into best ones now.

 

[Bert2oo1]

To combat algae we can do a few things: to decrease N and P with water changes, reduce the light and by competition (fast grow plants).
For each person and each tank there is a best option, but you can use more than one strategy.[emoji6]

Agree'd reducing lighting period will be best while cycling. Go to 6 hours of u have to. Make sure your lighting isn't too strong [emoji106]

 

[AnthD]

Agree'd reducing lighting period will be best while cycling. Go to 6 hours of u have to. Make sure your lighting isn't too strong [emoji106]

Yeah. Ive dropped it to between 5 and 6 hours now. Hopefully at the very least itll slow it right down until i can get it cycled and some fish in to sort it out.

 

[brendenscott]

What kind of light do you have? Dimming is also very helpful. With no co2 it is critical that the light not be too strong.