Plants are getting alge what should i do?

[Joeyv78]

Pants are growing this stringy alge should I cut back on hours of light it waslike 12 n 12 cut back on co2 any snails I could put in thereidk pls help

 

[aqua_chem]

What kind of light do you have, what are your water parameters, what plants do you have, etc? We need to know a bit more before we can give any kind of useful advice.


But as in almost every algae case, increasing CO2 is usually your first step.

 

[Joeyv78]

I dnt know the names off my plants their in the pics. Have a 55 gal with coralife t5 ho fixture with a flora max 5000k plant bulb with a ultra sun 6700k.have an aquaclear 110 filter and a tetra fs 20-40filter ammonia is low nitrites low nitrates 50ppm with a sicce co2 life 2.

 

[LyndaB]

Pants are growing this stringy alge should I cut back on hours of light it waslike 12 n 12 cut back on co2 any snails I could put in thereidk pls help

Could you please form sentences when you post? It's very confusing when you just do one long string of text.

 

[fishdud]

Lol pants....sorry haha try cutting back on your lighting period.

 

[Bags101]

could you please form sentences when you post? It's very confusing when you just do one long string of text.

not cool......

 

[LyndaB]

not cool......

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[Joeyv78]

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Sorry I'm not as smart as u r

 

[LyndaB]

Believe me, I never claimed to be smart.....

 

[Coursair]

+ 1 cut back to 8 hours of light.
Water Changes are good.
Increase CO2

High light without CO2 grows Algae Farms !

I'm a low light/low tech person. So no expert on CO2

 

[Joeyv78]

+ 1 cut back to 8 hours of light.
Water Changes are good.
Increase CO2

High light without CO2 grows Algae Farms !

I'm a low light/low tech person. So no expert on CO2

So increase co2? K I thought just the opposite I thought to decrease I'll try that thx