Need some algae help

[olbustedhotness]

been fighting this the last 2 months

 

[ImACoolguy]

Ouch! What's your water change schedule?

How good of flow do you have in the tank? Algae loves stagnant water.

I'd take a scrub brush to the rocks. Yucky! I leave some on my rocks for the snails and Otos but that is much much more...


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[Fresh2o]

It looks like a bad case of Cyanobacteria (BGA, blue green algae). I would pickup some erythromycin from the lfs or big box store and treat the tank. You should be able to remove a good deal of it via siphoning during the next water change (before you start treating).


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[Brookster123]

It looks like a bad case of Cyanobacteria (BGA, blue green algae). I would pickup some erythromycin from the lfs or big box store and treat the tank. You should be able to remove a good deal of it via siphoning during the next water change (before you start treating).


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Agreed!

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[olbustedhotness]

I water change once a weeks about 5 gallons.
beside the filter(penguin 350)... i don't have any other follow
ill going to pull out some of the rock today a clean...i have tried to siphoning the stuff off of the plants and i even pull the plants out and clean them off then put them back in

 

[ImACoolguy]

How many gallons is the tank?


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[olbustedhotness]

20 gal long

 

[Fresh2o]

If the stuff does not come off easily, then there's probably some type of green algae mixed in there as well.


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[ImACoolguy]

Increased water changes might help balance out the tank. This sounds like a lighting or nutrient problem.


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[olbustedhotness]

i have 2 6500k cfl bubs that hang above the tank bout 8 inches and i leave them on for 8 hours

 

[Brian_Nano12g]

As with Fresh and Brook, I agree it's most definetly BGA. It's a photosynthetic bacteria. I'd go with the erythromycin treatment as suggested. I've also used h2o2 spot treating, this should help with the other green algae that's mixed in.