indrani987
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
hello,
I have a 10 gallon freshwater,planted tank with 5 zebra danios and one african dwarf frog.
I've been having huge problems with algae for 6 months or so. I can't tell if it's red or brown - kind of rusty colored. I feed sparingly, I gravel vaccuum and do partial water changes every week, I leave the 15 watt fluorescent light on for 12-14 hours perday. I just replaced it today, wondering if something was wrong with it, as I've heard red (or brown?) algae thrives under low light levels. I've tried changing out everything from the tank, scrubbed everything down, adding lots of new plants, and now they are all covered in the algae again I didn't use bleach, cuz my friend did that and couldn't get it all out and killed her fish. I was hoping that my green plants would outcompete the algae for nutrients, but it doesn't seem to be working. I was going to use this algae killer stuff, but the lady at the pet store said she had tried them and they weren't very good at killing this type of algae....
any suggestions? If I were to start over, how could I have prevented this? is it easier if you have a bigger tank with a stronger light? Should I have just bought algae eaters from the get-go? Getting really tired of scrubbing off this nasty algae....(sigh!)
~indrani
I have a 10 gallon freshwater,planted tank with 5 zebra danios and one african dwarf frog.
I've been having huge problems with algae for 6 months or so. I can't tell if it's red or brown - kind of rusty colored. I feed sparingly, I gravel vaccuum and do partial water changes every week, I leave the 15 watt fluorescent light on for 12-14 hours perday. I just replaced it today, wondering if something was wrong with it, as I've heard red (or brown?) algae thrives under low light levels. I've tried changing out everything from the tank, scrubbed everything down, adding lots of new plants, and now they are all covered in the algae again I didn't use bleach, cuz my friend did that and couldn't get it all out and killed her fish. I was hoping that my green plants would outcompete the algae for nutrients, but it doesn't seem to be working. I was going to use this algae killer stuff, but the lady at the pet store said she had tried them and they weren't very good at killing this type of algae....
any suggestions? If I were to start over, how could I have prevented this? is it easier if you have a bigger tank with a stronger light? Should I have just bought algae eaters from the get-go? Getting really tired of scrubbing off this nasty algae....(sigh!)
~indrani