DavidVillarreal
Aquarium Advice Newbie
- Joined
- Aug 21, 2020
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Hello aquarium community. I need lots of help with my first tank that I have had for about 4 months approaching 5 months. For my first tank I bought a 29 gallon tank and a 700 cascade penn plax canister filter off Amazon as well as a NICREW planted plus light. I decided to go with dirt as my substrate (dumb idea) as I imagined a heavily planted tank and has really allowed my ludwigia, and wisteria to grow out and cover most of the tank. I first capped off with a thin layer of white sand and then black rocks as I change my mind on switching from white to black substrate. To cut the chase Over the past few months I’ve been dealing with this black algae I believe to be staghorn and it’s almost taken over the tank. I’ve tried dosing excel but I can’t dose enough to kill it all. I’m almost to the point where I might just tear down my tank. Here are pictures to help. Any tips or advice would be amazing. My life stock includes 5 otos, 8 rasbora, 5 zebra danios, and 5 barbs.