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[Geef64]

Bought a 55 gallon tank that had been set up before all live plants. It seems like in the last couple of weeks the tank is starting to get an excess of algae. I have 3 bristle nose plecos in the tank but dont seem like they do much good any ideas of what to do to help

 

[aqua_chem]

How much light do you have?

 

[Geef64]

Light comes on at 9am until 9pm. I have tried cutting light hours bit did not help. I know that it is on my basement with lots of windows that let very little light in. And none directly on the tank they are north facing

 

[aqua_chem]

But how MUCH light do you have? T8s? T5HO? etc.


Also, what kind of algae is it?

 

[Geef64]

They are T5 one is a color max and the other is 6700k. The algae looks like little hairs that hang off of a lot of plants not like clumps of hair but stands of hair