I have my tank in the living room, with lots of secondary light from the outside. Without heating, the water started reaching 28°C and the algae seemed to get out of hand.. I made screen of cardboard that covers the two sides facing the windows, and reduced lighting by 50% (to ca 900 lm). Still dosing MasterLine Golden and doing DIY CO₂. In a week, all algae was gone and the temperature in now just above 25°C. I've had it up for five weeks. My Ludwigia palustris ”Super Red” and Alternanthera reineckii "Mini" stayed red! I think I'll keep the screen there and just remove it in the evenings, until the weather starts cooling down. Great success!
I have a 60cm tank with plants and no algae problem for more than a year. I bought a new hood for it and it came with a new more powerful led light. The old one was led but less powerful. In a short time I had a big algae problem, so yes Light is very important!
I haven't watched for a while, but coming back reminded me why I love this channel so much. It is crazy to see you at almost 72k subs! I remember watching when you had about 5k subscribers and my first aquascape was inspired by your 10 and 20L nano tanks - it was a bit of a mix between those scapes. Keep up the great work Mark, and you can expect to see me watching more from now on haha
Kind of related to your tip about floating plants - trying to incorporate emergent plant growth where possible can be REALLY effective (although not possible with all aquascapes obviously). I've been experimenting with using pothos in a few low tech tanks and it has helped to severely limit algae growth in them.
Pothos, Peace Lily, Monstera... or whatever aquarium plants which tend to grow out of the water (Anubis, Echinodorus, Hygrophila). I've got pothos on most tanks, because it can grow out of a covered tank. Anubis and Peace Lily grow wild in my paludarium. Pothos there grows in a funny way, because of the humidity: Almost no leaves, but all the roots growing into substrate and water.
This works exceptionally well! I currently have a small pothos, 2 ficus, asparagus fern, peace lilly and a stinging nettle in my 20gal long and it's keeping the water perfect 0 everything. The only issue I'm dealing with is a small amount of hair algae but I doubled my cleanup crew to take care of it. So far so good.
Use fast growing stem plants as floating plants, remove some of the lower leaves to encourage aerial root growth! This has a number of benefits similar to normal floating plants! You can discard them later or plant them! More info on this at the UKaps!
Clithon snails eat BBA? Is this a specific nerite species or do all nerites eat BBA? Looked for info online but couldn’t find any info about them eating BBA?
I have lots of frogbit but I was still getting lots of filamentous hair algae. I had to remove the plants and dipped them into a bucket of hydrogen peroxide and water solution. And replanted them after redoing the hardscape.
Nice video Mark! Great tips! If I can add a what not to do, don’t add peroxide or liquid co2 directly to the leaves if they are out of water! Melted my bolbitis that way 😂
Hoi mark! Ben blij met deze video! Ik heb zelf baardalg en groene aanslag in mijn aquarium Helaas is het geen dimbare verlichting heb hem dus afgeplakt voor een deel met ductape na 2 weken begint de groene aanslag te verdwijnen en de baardalg is ook aan het doodgaan door easy carbo Bedankt voor deze video en hoop je te zien op vivarium 👋👋
Assuming you mean the little ball things he sprinkled on? They're just root capsules (tablet type fertilization for plants that feed via root) that he opened up to spread more evenly through the substrate. :)
I started with 60% for 8 hours (2h ramp incl) with my new Chihiros. It BURNED my plants to where I had to clear out half of the aquarium and buy new plants, Ive never seen that happen before and it happened in a day. I thought algea would be the issue I would run into, but it definitly was much worse than that 😣 It is running on 12% now and the plants are doing better, but I plan to sell the Chihiros and get a light that isnt powered by the sun. I can have light on for more hours then and it looks better since I dont have to dim it so much.
Every LED light should be dimmable, it's about voltage. It could be lowering voltage right on the power source, but that's limited. I'd recommend getting a dimmer for the voltage lights run on and a reduction if required. Most lights have either 5 V, 12 V or 24 V. Some of dimmers come with WiFi/Bluetooth connection and a phone app. They are sold for LED strips or other home appliances, but compatible with dedicated aquarium lights (Aquatlantis, Chihiros...).
Perfect timing, as I'm currently having algae issues in my dutch style. For anyone that has anyone, what light intensity percentage do you run your Chihiros WRGB2 in your high techs at? I'm currently at 80% for 8 hours and worry its too much and the cause of my brown filamentous algae. I've only just started the video so I'm sure I'll learn a lot in the next 10 minutes, but figured I'd ask anyway
is it legal to publish a video with showing all that muscles? I really can't concentrate about nothing else. (but then I turned off the monitor, and the content are very informative, thank you)
Always a good reminder about algae. I was wondering about the gluteraldehyde method and whether you lowered the water or not, so this has been really helpful. Thanks as always Mark
Thank you for the video Mark! Just a quick question: I plan to do a rescape on my 70L tank very soon. I don't plant to change the substrate or the hardscape, I'll probably just move it a bit gently towards the back and maybe add a little bit of decorative sand. I just want to replant the plants, since they have grown a lot and have started affecting the health of the other plants so I need to reorganize everything. Do I need to catch the fish in such a case?
Salut mark, alors la tu as fait une vidéo "vite fait bien fait" ses une expression française. Comme d'habitude vidéo intéressante et surtout très intéressante tu as tout résumé quasiment sur les algues. Et par contre t'es bacs sont magnifiques même avec ses grosses chaleur. Bravo et merci a toi. A très bientôt ^^
Will biofilm survive all of these methods. I am battling with hair algae and back beard algae. Finally getting a good colony of shrimp, I would hate to starve them.
Can a new tank syndrome cause lots of floating particles, everything else seems to be going ok but a little brown hair algae stuff on plants, i think thats the new tank syndrome? BUT i have so many floating particles, water is real clear apart from them, ive tried floss and everything, im pulling my hair out.
Regarding the blackout: what about the fish and feeding them? You just do that while blacked out? Also: how to cool your aquarium in summer? Do you have tips/tools for that??
No I don't feed the fish during those 3-4 days. I made a video last year about cooling down the aquarium in summer! ruclips.net/video/t9eyEGTWuYs/видео.html
My favourite algae eater now is panda garra.. they more hardworking than ottos..sometime otto just hanging on glass..but panda garra they don’t stop eating algae..buy small size panda garra..
I've been struggling a lot with Staghorn algae (black, gray filament on the leaf edges)... I think it was caused by a faulty bubble counter which led my CO2 to become erratic for a couple of weeks. But I already fixed that and it's been 3 weeks and it just does not go away, once it is in, it is in. I cut back much much of the affected areas, manually removed what I could, spot treated (too many spots), treated the whole tank, reduced light (within reason) and it is still there, not horrible as before but affecting a little bit every single plants... Just making each plant uglier than what should be. I am considering nukeing the whole thing with the one-Two Punch method... Have you read about it?? Thanks!
Yep! Check out the channel membership! With the super fan membership I can be your Aquascaping ''coach'' 😎 we can do some video chats to get you all set up
Great video. Any advice to dealing with cladophora,? In a previous video I see that one of your aquariums had cladophora, Id like to know how you deal with it, most of the people say that its almost imposible to eliminate it and the advice its just to star over, whats your opinion ?
My floating plants are not happy, they are melting... other plants are growing ok. In a no filter bowl the floating plants are multiplying. No problems with them. Not sure what to do
the gluta, so called liquid carbon, is the worst thing, is like acid, but if you have to chose, excell seachem, there are videos about the reality of this chemical and it made me thhrow it away.
I am worried about geting shrimp to my aquaruim bc how fast they can reproduce. What do i do if there will too many of them and how many shrimp i can punt into 40L aquarium
Amano shrimp(caridina multidentata) can only reproduce in brackish water. It's actually one of the hardest animals to breed because they move from fresh to salt and back during breeding. I would get 3 or 4 for your size of tank.
In america.. hobbyists cannot hear anyone say to keep the low temps.. they get so offended. "THESE ARE TROPICAL FISH AND NEED WALRM WATER TO THRIVE!" Smh
Salut , avec la wrgb chihiros quand je démarre un bac , je met à 30% !!! Puis j'augmente très doucement en surveillant l'évolution et la pousse des plantes . Je démarre à 6 h d'éclairage . 😉😎
This channel is so underrated when it comes to aquascaping! You deserve much more subscribers and views 😞
My favorite aquascaping youtuber. Thanks for the tips!
My pleasure!
MJ not skipping arms day!! 💪🏼
I have my tank in the living room, with lots of secondary light from the outside. Without heating, the water started reaching 28°C and the algae seemed to get out of hand.. I made screen of cardboard that covers the two sides facing the windows, and reduced lighting by 50% (to ca 900 lm). Still dosing MasterLine Golden and doing DIY CO₂. In a week, all algae was gone and the temperature in now just above 25°C. I've had it up for five weeks. My Ludwigia palustris ”Super Red” and Alternanthera reineckii "Mini" stayed red! I think I'll keep the screen there and just remove it in the evenings, until the weather starts cooling down. Great success!
I have a 60cm tank with plants and no algae problem for more than a year. I bought a new hood for it and it came with a new more powerful led light. The old one was led but less powerful. In a short time I had a big algae problem, so yes Light is very important!
I haven't watched for a while, but coming back reminded me why I love this channel so much. It is crazy to see you at almost 72k subs! I remember watching when you had about 5k subscribers and my first aquascape was inspired by your 10 and 20L nano tanks - it was a bit of a mix between those scapes.
Keep up the great work Mark, and you can expect to see me watching more from now on haha
Thanks buddy!
@@MJAquascaping No problem! I love your videos and your aquascaping style, you are in my opinion, one of the best aquascapers on youtube.
Kind of related to your tip about floating plants - trying to incorporate emergent plant growth where possible can be REALLY effective (although not possible with all aquascapes obviously). I've been experimenting with using pothos in a few low tech tanks and it has helped to severely limit algae growth in them.
Pothos, Peace Lily, Monstera... or whatever aquarium plants which tend to grow out of the water (Anubis, Echinodorus, Hygrophila).
I've got pothos on most tanks, because it can grow out of a covered tank. Anubis and Peace Lily grow wild in my paludarium. Pothos there grows in a funny way, because of the humidity: Almost no leaves, but all the roots growing into substrate and water.
This works exceptionally well!
I currently have a small pothos, 2 ficus, asparagus fern, peace lilly and a stinging nettle in my 20gal long and it's keeping the water perfect 0 everything. The only issue I'm dealing with is a small amount of hair algae but I doubled my cleanup crew to take care of it. So far so good.
Best to the point video I’ve seen yet.
Use fast growing stem plants as floating plants, remove some of the lower leaves to encourage aerial root growth! This has a number of benefits similar to normal floating plants! You can discard them later or plant them! More info on this at the UKaps!
Big big fan of your videos!
Always good to see videos like these to remind you of what to do when those pesky algaes show up
Clithon snails eat BBA? Is this a specific nerite species or do all nerites eat BBA? Looked for info online but couldn’t find any info about them eating BBA?
great video. short and sweet! Congrats
Awesome tips. Thank you as always! It’s always a pleasure to watch your channel!
I have lots of frogbit but I was still getting lots of filamentous hair algae. I had to remove the plants and dipped them into a bucket of hydrogen peroxide and water solution. And replanted them after redoing the hardscape.
Straight to the point! Excellent list! I recently made blackout based on your old video and it worked wonders! :D
Awesome!
Nice video Mark! Great tips! If I can add a what not to do, don’t add peroxide or liquid co2 directly to the leaves if they are out of water! Melted my bolbitis that way 😂
Hoi mark!
Ben blij met deze video! Ik heb zelf baardalg en groene aanslag in mijn aquarium
Helaas is het geen dimbare verlichting heb hem dus afgeplakt voor een deel met ductape na 2 weken begint de groene aanslag te verdwijnen en de baardalg is ook aan het doodgaan door easy carbo
Bedankt voor deze video en hoop je te zien op vivarium 👋👋
What’s the stuff you put in the soil when building new systems?
Assuming you mean the little ball things he sprinkled on? They're just root capsules (tablet type fertilization for plants that feed via root) that he opened up to spread more evenly through the substrate. :)
I started with 60% for 8 hours (2h ramp incl) with my new Chihiros. It BURNED my plants to where I had to clear out half of the aquarium and buy new plants, Ive never seen that happen before and it happened in a day. I thought algea would be the issue I would run into, but it definitly was much worse than that 😣 It is running on 12% now and the plants are doing better, but I plan to sell the Chihiros and get a light that isnt powered by the sun. I can have light on for more hours then and it looks better since I dont have to dim it so much.
Every LED light should be dimmable, it's about voltage. It could be lowering voltage right on the power source, but that's limited. I'd recommend getting a dimmer for the voltage lights run on and a reduction if required. Most lights have either 5 V, 12 V or 24 V. Some of dimmers come with WiFi/Bluetooth connection and a phone app. They are sold for LED strips or other home appliances, but compatible with dedicated aquarium lights (Aquatlantis, Chihiros...).
Thanks, great tips!
Tres interessant merci 👍
Perfect timing, as I'm currently having algae issues in my dutch style. For anyone that has anyone, what light intensity percentage do you run your Chihiros WRGB2 in your high techs at? I'm currently at 80% for 8 hours and worry its too much and the cause of my brown filamentous algae. I've only just started the video so I'm sure I'll learn a lot in the next 10 minutes, but figured I'd ask anyway
Im using the same light at 60% and 6 hours. Seems to grow my plant okay
Have learned so much from you. Thanks a bunch. I have a request: can you do a paludarium plant series on your big shallow. Thanks
Noted!
Thanks MJ. I shared this video with my brother who is currently struggling with algae in his tank. Great advice as usual.
Thank you
is it legal to publish a video with showing all that muscles? I really can't concentrate about nothing else.
(but then I turned off the monitor, and the content are very informative, thank you)
Always a good reminder about algae. I was wondering about the gluteraldehyde method and whether you lowered the water or not, so this has been really helpful. Thanks as always Mark
Do those horned snails leave eggs a,l over your hardscapes? What are they called? Thank you!
Amazing video as always! Is there a way you can tell me the name of those plants at minute 4:56 the ones that look like tiny bamboos at medium left
I think you mean the Eriocaulon cinereum!
Nice video as usual MJ... I would like to know how much light is enough , do the plants give any signs like nutrition deficiency?
Thank you for the video Mark! Just a quick question: I plan to do a rescape on my 70L tank very soon. I don't plant to change the substrate or the hardscape, I'll probably just move it a bit gently towards the back and maybe add a little bit of decorative sand. I just want to replant the plants, since they have grown a lot and have started affecting the health of the other plants so I need to reorganize everything. Do I need to catch the fish in such a case?
No need 😊
Hi what type of snail is it?
Great tips as always, and well-presented. Take care.
great video :D
Bij gebruik van een voedingbodem onder grind. Doe jij daar ook die roottabs in gebruiken ? Ik gebruik dennerle depotnitmiz 10 in 1
You already know which is my go to! 😅 blackout 👌🏼
So how long would you advise as in running time for skimmer? Thanks Great Video
10 minutes every 3-4 hours or so
Use pothos plant...
Really good advice here. Great content man@
Glad you liked it!
What kind of floatin plants are you usually use on your aquariums
Phyllanthus fluitans is my favorite
Super tips en een duidelijk uitleg 👍🏻
Salut mark, alors la tu as fait une vidéo "vite fait bien fait" ses une expression française.
Comme d'habitude vidéo intéressante et surtout très intéressante tu as tout résumé quasiment sur les algues. Et par contre t'es bacs sont magnifiques même avec ses grosses chaleur. Bravo et merci a toi. A très bientôt ^^
Hé mon pote! haha c'est marrant ! Je pense que je commence doucement à apprendre le français grâce à toi !
Merci d'avoir regardé!
Will biofilm survive all of these methods. I am battling with hair algae and back beard algae. Finally getting a good colony of shrimp, I would hate to starve them.
Can a new tank syndrome cause lots of floating particles, everything else seems to be going ok but a little brown hair algae stuff on plants, i think thats the new tank syndrome?
BUT i have so many floating particles, water is real clear apart from them, ive tried floss and everything, im pulling my hair out.
how you deal with snails ..
for tanks without lids?..
as they tend to crawl out of the tank??
Hmm I rarely see them out of the tank
Any tipps against Cladophora issues?
Currently dealing with some clado myself! I can't say much just yet, but I've started a treatment, and I will do a video on it soon!
@@MJAquascaping would be awesome. I tryed a lot, but didnt Work 😢
In my country in Indonesia very hard for have 22/23°c i think every years maybe 28/31°c but IM alyws doing waterchange 2/3 every week
Hello MJ....Adding snails is good...but how to get rid of there eggs....you add any fish...
king koopa snails don't lay eggs
In my experience the Clithon snails lay hardly any eggs
good stuff
Regarding the blackout: what about the fish and feeding them? You just do that while blacked out? Also: how to cool your aquarium in summer? Do you have tips/tools for that??
No I don't feed the fish during those 3-4 days.
I made a video last year about cooling down the aquarium in summer! ruclips.net/video/t9eyEGTWuYs/видео.html
@@MJAquascaping Perfect missed that one thanks!
On the lean dosing,How many millimeters of ferts,and how many times a week do you dose?
3ml of potassium on monday wednesday and friday, and 3ml of micro on monday
@@MJAquascaping so no nitrogen or phosphates?? Just potassium?
My favourite algae eater now is panda garra.. they more hardworking than ottos..sometime otto just hanging on glass..but panda garra they don’t stop eating algae..buy small size panda garra..
Great tip! I have never tried them myself
In Tasmania we are not allowed snails or shrimp so it makes it hard to deal with algae at times
That's a bummer...
I've been struggling a lot with Staghorn algae (black, gray filament on the leaf edges)... I think it was caused by a faulty bubble counter which led my CO2 to become erratic for a couple of weeks. But I already fixed that and it's been 3 weeks and it just does not go away, once it is in, it is in. I cut back much much of the affected areas, manually removed what I could, spot treated (too many spots), treated the whole tank, reduced light (within reason) and it is still there, not horrible as before but affecting a little bit every single plants... Just making each plant uglier than what should be. I am considering nukeing the whole thing with the one-Two Punch method... Have you read about it?? Thanks!
Loves it thanks. Hey Mark, I’m about ready to set up my new tank but I’m waiting until the cooler weather to progress. Do you do a support service?
Yep! Check out the channel membership! With the super fan membership I can be your Aquascaping ''coach'' 😎 we can do some video chats to get you all set up
@@MJAquascaping thanks mark. I’ll take you up on that when im ready Ta
Great video. Any advice to dealing with cladophora,? In a previous video I see that one of your aquariums had cladophora, Id like to know how you deal with it, most of the people say that its almost imposible to eliminate it and the advice its just to star over, whats your opinion ?
Yep currently dealing with some clado! I can't say much just yet, but I've started a treatment, and I will do a video on it soon!
I have white fuzz on my aquarium plants and my helanthium tenellum is getting translucent from the tips of it leaves
Any help guys
I’m with #fishiemon64. Green hair algae is problematic on one of my tanks. The liquid carbon has really helped me. Thanks MJ for your tips!
MJ, been hitting the gym lately? Looking buff dude 💪
Sometimes😁
My floating plants are not happy, they are melting... other plants are growing ok. In a no filter bowl the floating plants are multiplying. No problems with them. Not sure what to do
Hi did you figure out the problem with your floating plants? It could be the flow is too powerful for the plants to grow
the gluta, so called liquid carbon, is the worst thing, is like acid, but if you have to chose, excell seachem, there are videos about the reality of this chemical and it made me thhrow it away.
Sis, the tank is 2 years old and is fertilizer plugged in?
I'd warn that liquid carbon kills amazon frogbit. I use hydrogen peroxide to spot treat with good success
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I am worried about geting shrimp to my aquaruim bc how fast they can reproduce. What do i do if there will too many of them and how many shrimp i can punt into 40L aquarium
Amano shrimp(caridina multidentata) can only reproduce in brackish water. It's actually one of the hardest animals to breed because they move from fresh to salt and back during breeding. I would get 3 or 4 for your size of tank.
@@privateportall Oh wow so was looking for bad spiecies
Waneer maak je een Nederlandstalig filmpje.
Aankomende zaterdag!
Will gold fish eat my “Algae cleanup crew”
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Great killing algae tips 👍🏻
Tip Nr1: accept your algae. It is everywhere in nature 😄
Misschien nog een kleine aanvulling als tip 11: niet te veel voeren !!!
In america.. hobbyists cannot hear anyone say to keep the low temps.. they get so offended. "THESE ARE TROPICAL FISH AND NEED WALRM WATER TO THRIVE!" Smh
😂
Green hair algae is my nemesis 🤣 #fishiemon64
Currently have some myself as well🙃
Please put translation into Portuguese Brazil
It should be there!
No
Salut , avec la wrgb chihiros quand je démarre un bac , je met à 30% !!!
Puis j'augmente très doucement en surveillant l'évolution et la pousse des plantes .
Je démarre à 6 h d'éclairage .
😉😎
@@christianjacquet4095 Merci mec. Je vais considérer votre recommandation.