The WORST Algae in the Aquarium... and it's not BBA
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- Опубликовано: 17 янв 2025
- Cladophora algae, also known as "blanket weed," is a type of filamentous green algae which can be found in aquariums. It can be a nuisance in aquariums as it tends to grow rapidly and can quickly cover surfaces, leading to aesthetic issues and potentially harming the health of aquatic plants and animals. Ive had no luck in combating in! And as a result i will disinfect all of my tank, plants, and filter.
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Lmaooo 😂 shit no i didnt think of that! 😂😂
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I have this algae in my nano tank, and honestly I quite like it.
So because I don't mind it, it doesn't bother me at all to see it, when I want to reduce it, I can easily grab a bunch and take it out. Never gone, but nothing that bothers me.
Best video on claudo I’ve ever seen. People who are suggesting alternatives have never dealt with it.
I have never been able to eliminate it from a tank. I’ve had decent results with h2o2 and algae fix. But my results sound similar to everything you have tried.
Thank you! It's definitely a stubborn one! And definitely one that unless youve experienced it you cant fully understand just how indestructible it is!
I feel your pain. I have this algae. Its indestructible. For those that say do nothing, you havent had this type of algae. It will kill your carpet, your epiphytes, and when out of hand it will trap your livestock. I have a feeling it even survives being dry i.e. it found its way into a new tank with reused hardscape or small pebbles even after i sun dried them all for weeks and left them in the garage for a few months
yess 100% Same here! Ive had the exact same thing with hardscape thats been boiled and left and it still some how re-alived itself! 😅 awful stuff!
This is my life appreciate your honesty
I managed to get this under control in my low-tech, high light tank. It was never too bad as I kept removing it manually, but after a while it disappeared. Not really sure why, but it's a tank with a lot of emersed growth that keeps the nutrients at 0, even though I regularly dose micros, macros, trace and a little bit of liquid co2 with a doser. I would try that: low nutrients in the water, but a lot in the substrate (that's capped with sand), so the plants don't starve. I still have lots of anubias and buce that do fine, but grow very slowly of course.
I am thinking of capping with sand in the rescape, i used to do it, then stopped, but in hindsight i had less alage issues when i capped with sand 🤔
caping it does nothing for algae, but white sand vs black will completely change your game.
black sand being the choice!
@@mettugran you are very wrong about that. Aquasoils like Amazonia leach a lot of nitrogen and other nutrients into the water column long after the tank is set up. Capping it with sand prevents that, you actually retain more nutrients in the soil which your plants can access through their roots while starving the algae that doesn't have roots going into the substrate.
that's right.
i have it in one of my tanks. it always grows on my dwarf sag. i thought it was to much nutrients leaching from the substrate. because i dont have it in my other 2 tanks, and they're capped with sand. i did have it in my smaller tank and it went away after i capped it... but it always seems to be the carpeting plants that get it. in my case anyway
Controlas la temperatura??Es muy importante mantener la temperatura a 22grados para mantener las algas al minimo
I also had a tank infested with this algae. I thought it smelt like iron it's horrible. I haven't completely got rid of it but it does seem to have stopped multiplying. The tank was lightly planted and had some seryu stone. I ended up pulling out the plants and cleaning them as best I could by hand, pulling out all the algae I could see in the soil and taking out the stone altogether and replacing it with a small piece of wood. It's a low tech tank so no co2. I came to the conclusion the stone was leeching something into the water that was encouraging it to grow. It had temporarily been homing some endlers while I got a bigger tank set up for them so I also took them out and now just have a few fish that live outside in summer in it. Once they get evicted I'll redo the whole thing. Maybe the reduction in fish poop has also helped but it's at a point where I think it could be rescued if I wanted to. I hope you have better luck on the next try. It's a lovely tank.
Yess! I just couldn't put my finger on it, but iron is pretty accurate! Thank you, i hope you manage to get rid of it too! Its definitely a frustrating algae!
I’ve had an issue with bba that I just couldn’t get on top of until I did a rescape. I emptied the tank. Dumped the substrate, dipped the plants and used new hardscape.
Thats pretty much my plan too, although im not going to re use the plants, but i am going to keep them quarantined after an aggresive bleach dip!
I have cladophora in multiple tanks and I’ve NEVER been able to get rid of it. I did however find that it’s even better than spawning mops for collecting rainbowfish eggs.
Sorry to hear of your dilemma. I think more floating plants may help. Where did you get your CO2 dispenser equipment from? I'm not sure where to start on this front. Thanks
i wonder if the spin pipe was not pushing the co2 bubble around enough and the uneven co2/flow distribution didnt reach the back, there are a lottt of plants there
So The co2 was only added a month ago to see if it would help reduce the alage, the cladophora was there long before the co2 and actually it just seemed to grkw faster with the addition of co2 😅
@@REscapes oh yeah you basically gave it an energy drink if it was already there oopsies :D
@@REscapes the best you can really do to fight this algae is having healthy plants and manually removing it, i usually stick a ton of guppy grass and floaters in tanks that i see it starting in
@@elune43749 it was definitely on Red Bull 😂
Dang you have tried a ton of different things. Good on you for sticking with it.
What about reducing the temperature and adding an air stone? I noticed some biofilm and assuming that you experience it more than just in that shot, there could be limited gas exchange.
Honestly, the solution is probably as varied as everyones water! No two are the same.
Ahh thanks 😅 well I have a betta in there so i cant lower the temperature really, i think bettas generally produce an oily slime coat so both of my betta tanks have some level of surface film most of the time, but maybe that could cause some issues with gas exchange 🤔
@@REscapes I realized that after I typed it. My betta tanks always had more algae than the others. The warm water is like a breeding ground for it.
Do you got something like crushed lava rocks or Ada power sand as a base layer? I had the same problem in my tank when i just poured soil in without thinking about oxygenation below the soil. Algae feeds on soil and roots decomposing in the ground.
Yeah there is a layer of ada power dand below the aquasoil 😊
I have it in a few of my tanks. I'm considering tearing them down and starting over. It seems to be a lot more like a higher order plant than algae, and anything that would kill it would kill all the other plants. All you can do is keep manually removing it and hope the other plants eventually choke it out, but that's hard to do in an aquascaped tank. It gets tangled up in fine leaved plants and you have to remove the whole plant. Forget about a carpet plant. Once it gets in there you have to remove the carpet plants along with it. Like you, I've tried everything that works on other algaes. It's probably a beneficial plant in a shrimp only tank or something you don't mind being ugly, but if you're trying to maintain an aquascaped tank forget it.
Regarding the Marimo moss balls in the US, an employee at a large pet chain store found some small zebra mussels on one so of course everyone panicked. The first reaction was to ban it and tell everyone to destroy all their moss balls with a flamethrower. Some people actually did. It wasn't totally banned though. Sellers just had to be careful where they sourced theirs. You can still buy them, but the availability has gone down and the price went up. Some chain stores probably no longer sell it, but it isn't banned by law as far as I know. I live in the great lakes region which is already infested with zebra mussels. Beaches can get covered in their shells and you can't see the sand anymore.
Yess someone who gets it, I think you are exactly spot on with it being more like a plant or extremely well adapted algae! And my carpet was the first to be smothered by it! Then I'd just find random balls of it around areas of flow where im guessing it would just essentially snowball!
I got rid of it with amanos. I think i still have it, since my second tank has alot of it and I am not careful. I sell alot of plants and the ones from the 2nd tank I bathe in peroxy
As I have a green algae problem, this video interests me since you can unfortunately recognize Cladofora. When I wrap it around a pair of pliers, there's some resistance when the pliers move aside and the algae looks like a thread, otherwise, it makes a dark green and a bit slimy mass but threads are visible. Is it a Cladophora, or are all green hair and filamentous algae like that?
I notice you have a spin pipe, I assume to conform with the betta, regardless, have you tried increasing flow and oxygen.
Try some floaters for a while, or any plant that grows quickly emersed… red root floaters, Brazilian pennywort. Run those for a while and see how it affects your algae situation.
I used to have duckweed (i dont actually remember putting that in i swear it spawned itself 😅) red rot floaters and amazon Frogbit up until recent and i only took it out maybe last month or 6 weeks ago, it had no affect 😫
I have something like this problem now and by reading comments below it's clear for my rescape of the tank I need to ditch everything. My question is, do I need to clean the filter (canister) or can it be kept running (in a bucket) so that I don't loose my beneficial bacteria and can set up a new scape and get the fish back in?
I Definitely would bleach the filter, i used hydrogen peroxide on everything other wise it will just come back im afraid 😓
@@REscapes Hi and thanks for the reply! If I don't have a good option with what to do with the 10 rasboras in the tank, would you do a fish-in cycle or rehome them ? Thanks!
@nancywaterhouse3135 you could do a fish in cycle, i dont like them personally but ive done them and had to do it when i stripped my tank and filter down after cladophora, just make sure your water changing 50% daily for the first week at least and then maybe every 2 days on the second week, and plant heavy from the start, use floating plants even if theyre just temporary. But clado doesnt mean you have to tare your tank down straight away if its not feasable, i still have it in one of my cube aquariums and i just keep manually removing what i can until i have the time and funds to do a total rescape 😊
@@REscapes Thanks so much!
I feel your pain, i still have this is my fairly new aquarium..no other algae just this 😤
I tryed to deal with too, I have some sort of ptsd due to that algae xDDD Just dreak down a pretty descent scape, get rid of all plant and aquasoil (a lot..), and sterilized everything. I still have some of it a different, low tech tank, it grow there and here, but not that bad, but now I super cautious, wash my hand every time after touching the infected water, use different hoses, spogies, ect. Hope it wont come back :")
im from up in canada we have clad in our lakes i know it dies when the lakes get 2 hot i've never had it in an aquarium but you could try raising your temp up as high as ur plants and fish will handle (i'd probably do it a lil at a time)
I don't think that would work. I had this algea on some plants I put into a cycling tank (fishless). When I cycle I turn the temp up to 85 to speed up the process. The algea was still going strong ugh.
I had this in my nano tank too.. i may say , it actually helped me in keeping my tank water clear.. i mean whenever i complety removed them , my tank water got lightly cloudy.. and also the thin layer of algae on the glass that we all usually have in our tank increases.. i never let it over grow, but let it be in the back side of the plants .. somehow it absorbs the excess waste in the tank. Its my experience 😊 i am ok with it...
This algae also can anchor on soil.& The worst they also can stay forever on rhizomes like anubias & bucephalandra
100% it does!
Do you guys have Fluconazol up there? If you have you can treat this algae with it
Thats really interesting, i have not tried! Ill have to look into that 🤔 thanks!
@@REscapes here in Brazil we use it a lot to treat Clado, usually it appears when your aquarium completely stable, and doesnt looks like it has anything to do with nutrient unbalance. If you need i can search the dosage.
@m_aqua if i can get a hold of it ill definitely keep some on hand just incase it re appears, i have stripped and bleached this tank and filter down now for a full fresh restart, but it is present in the cube next to it so its definitely worth having incase of another break out!
I feel your pain, I have the same type of algae in all my 3 tanks. This algae behaves like a plant, and thrives in balanced tank.
Tried all the same remedies as yours, without much success. My tanks are balanced for 3+ years, filled with plants, one with soft and hot water, others with hard and cold water. Floating plants don't help much. Hydrogen peroxide, liquid carbon and algexit have not helped in smaller dose, and i'm scared to overdose.
I ended up to access it as part of the ecosystem, and remove it by hand. Slow growing plant are affected, and it loves to grow on soft wood.
Smell is not that bad, about the same as java moss.
Wow i feel like were in the same boat then! Much of what younsaid echos my situation perfectly, its such a shame because it doesn't look like it harms the plants, like some alages seem to destory leaf tissue, but this doesnt, and the majority of the plants look pretty healthy, theyre just infested!
I bought some plants which came in with this type of algae. I was terrified to add the plant to my tank and decided to skip straight to the nuclear option. I filled up a small specimen with a little tank water, dump a substantial amount of Seachem Excel in (at least 100x the dose) and soaked the plants in the solution for 15 minutes. Took them out and manually removed as much of this green devil hair as possible before adding them to my tank. Within four days it turned brown and was seemingly dead. After two weeks I trimmed the tops off and removed the old growth + dead algae. One month later and none of this algae was able to spread in my tank. ymmv but hey, what else is there to try lmfao
thats the point. Clado loves balanced tanks. there are some guys who state that they got rid of this pain by overfeeding,
with lots of phosphates and nitrogen in the water.
@@ralf716 thanks for the tip, I haven't though of that!
I have this in a 60F and its ruined the tank from the planted perspective. I'm in the same situation as you with the cube though where I'm worried about moving the livestock around and I have a great terrestrial plant display growing out of the tank that I'd have to scrap which would be a real shame - interesting a comment below mentions that they had the same issue in a low nutrient tank too (mine is 0 nitrate all the time). I also got this from another hobbyist that gave me some shrimp and within that came this algae, duckweed and mayfly nymphs - lesson learned!
It is such a shame, as i mentioned in another comment, the most annoying things is that plants dont look any less healthy despite the algae, some alage seems to affect plant health but most of my plants actually look really healthy, but they have little strands or almost like fibres of cladophora their stems and its just a huge risk re using them so it feels like a big waste of plants. Id say mine was low nutrient until i started doesing ferts and adding co2 but it actually seemed to make it worse as it thrives in same conditions as plants so if anything it was loving it 😅
@@REscapes I wonder if it is a true algae or more like a Pelia or Riccia, something that can be invasive. I think when I manage to rescape it I'm just going to tear it right down and start again - which is still fun :)
Well i finally found out what the algae that ive been dealing with on my java moss. My siamese algae eater and amano shrimp doesnt seen to be interested in eating it. And i notice it is strong enough to tangle up the fish. When i try to pull it off the moss it pulles the moss right off of the drift wood which is a shame since it just grew in and started it look the way i wanted to. Oh well. I might just take a scissor to keep them trim to prevent tangling and treat them like a fuzzy moss that i never asked for.
Forbidden fuzzy moss 😂
Are there any fish that eat it? I know it's a smaller tank so your options are limited already.
My Siamese algae eaters don’t touch it
@@onlywei my Otocinclus Catfish tend to eat a lot, but I've never had that. In particular my Hillstream Loaches will eat anything. However, I have them in a 20g tank (~75L). Not sure how large that tank is but it might not be the best set up.
Funny to read all the comments from people who obviously havent experienced cladophora in their tanks yet. "Just dont mess with the tank, it needs to balance" or "use floating plants". There is literally nothing you can do as it doesnt behave like any other algae, more like a regular aquarium plant.
Yeah the usual "go to" solutions that usually work with most other algae just doesnt work with clado, and even if you focus on just growing healthy plants, the cladophora thrives with it!
My friend I've done this for over 20 years cladophora will disappear if you let another algae out compete it, but I'm guessing your disgusted by those algae too, fish poop creates algae that's the simple fact I learnt over 20 years, pick a algae you like and get rid of the rest is the only way.
Hornwort works IMO… super aggressive plant that will act like a mop for the spores… the spores struggle in the foxtail.. when it clumps inside the Hornwort you can easily pull it out and throw away some of the hornwort
@@gardockis.playground Thats not a fix though. It would do nothing to address the root problem. Personally Ive seen eleocharis mini to be a great trap for cladophora in my tanks. But this does nothing to actually rid the tank of the algae, its just a temporary cosmetic fix
@@MamboGimbobili it’s an aid in the process homie.. physical removal, hydrogen peroxide and maintenance is the end game
Everything you described sounds like you have very high phosphate level in the tank. People always check pH, Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrate, GH and KH. Not many people even think to check phosphate let alone even do it. Very high phosphates explode algae growth and also render the type of algae as very robust. Until you can control phosphates, you will never get on top of algae taking over the entire tank.
I had the same problems as you. My algae was so bad it covered the leaves of what little plants I had left as it continued to choke them. It would become like a thick black film. I would mechanically rub it off the leaves and discard it as waste but two weeks later it would just come back. NOTHING I did worked.
Then I switched to weekly water changes with just rain water and I reduced lighting for about two months. That's all I did. Rain water has almost nothing in it. The difference was night and day. The algae receded and from about about 6 months ago to now my tank has been pristine. Lighting was since brought back to its original levels, still no algae. I have been enjoying a lush green planted tank with no visible signs or algae at all with minimal maintenance. The plants are busting out. You can probably do the same with RO water or buy distilled water, but for mine, rain water is free.
You may be onto something if you suspect the commercial bought substrate as phosphate is normally used as substrate fert. The other tank in shot looks to have a sand / gravel substrate which looks relatively inert and can be the reason why it doesn't suffer algae growth as much. The substrate isn't continually releasing ferts.
It could also be high in your tap water already if you use tap water for fills and water changes. If all your tanks exhibit algae and you use tap water for all of them, I would test your tap water for phosphates. If it's just the one tank you are referencing in the video I would test that tanks water for high phosphates.
It could also be you are way overfeeding your fish in that tank and have lots of uneaten flakes/pellets that raise the phosphates in your water, but that's unlikely to be the only source if you have been doing big water changes.
Get a phosphate test kit. You have nothing to lose by trying. Or take a water sample to your LFS and ask them to do a phosphate test.
If after testing you now further suspect the substrate you can water change with rain water only. If rain water etc isn't an option where you live then you can swap out the substrate it because it will never stop. You don't have to throw it all out but you can do a 50 50 mix with an inert substrate to lower its concentration.
Phosphate is the first thing i check because my tapbwater used to be high in it so i used phosguard in all of my filters which is like a resin that removes excess,Phosphate and silicates , thankfully my tap water supply must have changed something because now its low, but when i used to test it, the colour it would go would be off the scale it was that high , i have a video where i talk about phosphates in tap water and how i combat it, so yeah i dont think its Phosphate as i had that pretty under control.
The tank next door with the sand still uses substrate in the back but both tanks are so old i dont think there will be much nutrition left in the substrate, and i use the same brand in all my scapes and have only ever had issue with this one and the cube. Its an impossible algea because of how thrives in not only perfect conditions that plants would, but also in niche conditions where not much else will. Its known as blanket weed and from what ive read about it, its just a machine and doesnt ever really die!
I’ve even tried complete blackout…… still lives 😢🇦🇺❤️
Si compartes mangueras, tijeras, pinzas o cualquier cosa que metas al acuario con cladophora y lo usas en otro eventualmente terminará en el resto de tus acuarios. Es mejor tener herramientas para cada uno y reiniciar desde 0 ante cualquier signo de cladophora
Yeah i will definitely do this now! 😊
@@REscapes desafortunadamente aprendemos de las malas experiencias 🙃. Saludos ✌🏽
I’m battling staghorn and frankly I would switch ya! Atleast you can pull yours out easy
Lol well, I have staghorn on my big tank 😂 although i have managed to cure that before, i always find its a spike in ammonia or organkc waste that causes mine ao if i do a heavy trim and dont decrease my fertiliser or alternatively if i go heavy with the ferts and the plants are adapting to a high nutrient environment i seem to get it too
@@REscapes I will definitely be checking this! Solid advice! I’ve done two large water changes to try and “reset” the tank and only dosing ferts once a week now compared to the recommended two. I even sucked up every inch of anything I could find dead or loose on the plants. I wasn’t playing!
i’m pretty sure it’s too much light, removed mine by lowering the light intensity.
Ive tried that, especially with my cube aquarium which is next to my 45p, it runs on 25%, has done for aaagges and it still has it 😅
I’ve run my light at 10% for two years and I still have this algae. I’ve even raised the light by 4 inches and I still have this algae.
I felt bad giving this video a thumbs up. It's not the best situation. Have you tried fire? I've seen what flamethrowers can do to plants. Really quite effective.
I debated fire, waterboarding it, paying it to leave, yelling at it 😂😂 i feel it wouldnt work lol
Have you tried having black out days? No light at all every 2nd day. Also from what i can see your substrates are not thick enough, most tanks i see that can have THAT much plant in such a small tank have at least 4 inches (10cm) of substrate. Also no, i am not a fan of thick substrate its just something i observed. Otherwise its impossible to balance a tank that size for that much plant. Been doing this for over 20 years, most long term dense planted tanks will need plants to be removed or replanted. Such densly planted tanks do not exist in nature unless near thermal vents or spring water which provides so much nutrition and remove all waste at 100% rate every hr.
Wow, I feel your pain and I'm sorry but given you're dealing with an algae outbreak, your tanks still look so amazing. I'm new to freshwater planted tanks but I'm not new to algae farming in my marine reef tank and there are some incredibly nasty forms of algae there. I've spent close to the past 8 months battling various kinds of algae and although I might be an expert at growing it, i'm far from an expert at beating it but I learned some basic theory I can share and maybe this will help. Algae is spawned by microbes that are hitch-hikers on your livestock or substrate or anything that came into contact with an aquatic ecosystem. They're basically always there but where they become apparent is from when one (or both) of two things and the latter is the worst kind. The first is when there is excess energy in the form of nutrients and light that your livestock and bacteria is not taking care of. The second (and worst kind) is when they have an opportunity to compete with your beneficial bacteria. In my case this was dinoflagellates, my nitrates bottomed out because there was not enough ammonia by products and too much filtration which starved off enough of my beneficial bacteria, to compound the matter my phosphates were high enough to give them a nice boost. They're already good enough at outcompeting beneficial bacteria if given a chance but compound that with light and phosphates and your bacteria doesn't stand a chance. Bacteria takes a very long time to take hold where algae takes hours or days to bloom. Keep your nitrates up, keep your phosphates down, dose bacteria, carbon dose, water change and all the usual things for months. If all goes well your bacteria will have enough to win the battle but it takes a long time. Another thing to watch out for with bacteria is that they deplete oxygen but if you introduce oxygen via a wood air stone and flow (flow doesn't allow the algae to readily use it's defensive mechanisms such as clumping or sliming or creating protective films) and it doesn't hurt if there's a macrophage (big mouth) bacteria to dose, but those are also aerobic and require lots of oxygen and even a little carbon boost, but they will eat algae as well and give your beneficial bacteria space to grow. Nope, not easy whatsoever. One more important thing, watch your phosphates, beneficial bacteria can't take care of that, plants can but algae loves phosphates so keep them as low as possible where you still get plant growth. In short, it's the bacterial and plant ecosystem balance that keeps algae from taking hold but once it does, you could be in for a very long battle as described.
Well, now I'm off to smell my algae...
🤣🤣🤣 enjoy!
I am not alone.
I take them out bz hand, week over week. No chane. Think i have to live with that. Also on "my low tech tanks".
I think it’s more prevalent with people who keep odd numbers of tanks. You have 7…
Thats seems like a good enough reason to get an 8th 😂😂
One day after watching your video I found Cladophora in one of my tanks! I blame you for that!
😂😂 its a cursed video!
@@REscapes I knew it! 😩
This stuff is a nightmare! Never ever, ever get moss balls! That's where it starts!
They are contaminated half the time.
Yeah i usually avoid moss balls, which is a shame because i think theyre really cool and fluffy lol
A couple of Water lettuce, Pistia Stratiotes are great to reduce alge problem.
My water lettuce is infested with clado 😂
Heres a controvertial suggestion:
Get more algae of different types to compete with the undesired algae.
Like deliberately getting different algae from other tanks or even outdoors and letting them establish there.
This tank looks like it is being kept spotless and id hazard a guess that for people doing aquascapes, this isnt too much of an option (Especially if you say that algae are a reason to get out of the hobby???).
But this just keeps the competition low for the established algae.
I personally just keep planted tanks that will get a trimming whenever its too overgrown and algae and things like mulm are just part of the whole system.
My tanks all grow several types of algae and you have to search for all of them, because they mainly grow in small specific spots in some back corner.
I did actually think about this and wondered if algea might show signs of being allelopathic, or if there were faster growing algaes that could outcompete it. But cladophora was the only algae i had in there so i could never tell and therefore it had the advantage to smother everything, which it did to all the hair grass, but that would have actually been a really good experiment to try.
You have to be more aggressive than this algae if you want to beat it. Pothos/ Hornwort holistic approach… relentless maintenance from the filter to every plant, hardscape and substrate (prefers gravel\aquasoil over sand)… tirelessly netting floating spores and spot dosing hydrogen peroxide.. when you think it’s gone… keep going til you know.. all in all I noticed some of my plants seemed to like the algae… my cherry shrimp colonies think it’s the best thing ever..
Hornwort is my cure to this problem
have you tried doing nothing? let it work itself out? doing everything sometimes is the problem as much as its hard to admit
Yeah as I mentioned in the scape before this one, it was in there nearly a year, and i just left it as it blended in with the hair grass and it never resolved its self, it just slowly began to smother things more and more
Is this the kind you are talking about?
ruclips.net/video/-kKpUqXl3KE/видео.html
Yes, it's hard to get rid of. But I went the other way. And have it in a lot of tanks now. I consider it a very beneficial plant. It needs to be cut down. But it use nitrate and it is lovely for the shrimps to grass on. Guppies will eat it if they get hungry enough.
It is a type of algae to be aware of. It might kill sword plants like the Black Beard, but worse. It doesn't kill fish though. Well, it might, if you have _HUGE_ amounts. But if you have a fish dying, it might end up in the algae. But at least in my experience, healthy fish will not get caught it in. They might grass on it.
And it's to dense to be a good hiding place for fry. Unfortunately. :)
I believe the Crossocheilus Oblongus as well as C. Reticulata will eat it. It is probably your best bet. But it will grow rather fast. So you need an "exit strategy" - someone to sell the fish to or something.
It looks very similar from what i can tell! Although i love that youve made the most of it! My shrimp wouldn't eat it i think its too hard, but I think it captures loads of micro flora /fauna and thats what the shrimp graze on, its probably great to bring up baby shrimp
My Siamese algae eaters and amano shrimp won’t touch this.
so, i’m looking at the algae issue from a aquaponic horticulturist point of view, i also have a masters degree in biology. with that said, in “aquarium hobbyist terms”, if you want to grow algae, for example, on your rocks for a predator or goldfish tank, or if you need green water, what do we do? put aquarium water in the sun. do we give it excess nutrients and ammonia and so forth? no. we use the sun and it’s full spectrum of lights and hours of exposure. so do the reverse. if you see algae, cut your lights down in intensity and hours of light. this includes indirect light. if you can read in the light in the room, it’s lights on for your algae as well.
this is what i do. first sight of algae, i do a 20 percent water change with OR water. even if is out of schedule. reduce my lights by half, and reduce the time from 8 to 6 hours. takes 2-3 days to clear. i maybe do this once a month.
most people just have too much light. and they are not willing to make that change so they constantly mess around. lets be honest, most of us have cheap crap plants anyways. if your worried about algae so much you shouldn’t worry about your 2 dollar java fern not performing to its potential. SO TURN DOWN YOUR LIGHTS
Hey thanks for commenting, the lights were running 6 hours a day at 25% turning the light down does nothing for cladophora, it does for things like hair algae, or green water as you say, but filamentous types dont respond all that much to lighting in my personal experience. And cladophora definitely doesnt, it doenst behave like your usual algaes, and its hard to get that across to people, unless you've actually dealt with it in a planted aquarium then you can appreciate how stubborn it is and how actually, its adapted to thrive under the same conditions as plants, but also in conditions where most plants would die.
@@REscapes i do think reducing light will kill it, but it would need to be at a level that would be low for plants too. If you can reduce the light to where fast growing stem plants are struggling, the algae will cease to exist.
This is from experience keeping unlit tanks, only algae in low light is the film on glass that snails eat.
Ever think about just leaving it alone? Your tank can't balance if you are constantly messing with it. Algae is common while the tank is balancing.
Yeah i did try, for about the first 8 months to a year (in the previous scape) i did just leave it and it pretty much stayed in the hair grass so i just left it, but it never cleared up, it was always there, just kinda tangled in the grass, but in this scape it just formed into thick tufts, i just dont think anything that thick and compact would clear up so easily no matter what i did, other than manual removal but it leaves little strands
dude, its not a common kindergarten algae, it is pure evil.
API Algaefix will work but it will kill your shrimp and other invertebrates.
Yeah ive heard that, thats the only chemical i didnt fancy trying and ive never seen it avaialble in the uk either!
Try chemiclean
Hydrogen peroxide squirted with a syringe or pipette directly on the affected areas.
You got to much nutrient in water column and thats it! Rich nutrient substrate and cap that with sand. Those algae will not thrive.
the substrate has been in there 2 years and as such has leeched the majority of its nutrients and wasnt dosing fertiliser, it was a very low nutrient lowntech tank, the co2 had only been put on a month or so prior to see if it would have made a difference and only then did i start heavily dosing.
stop making changes.. then it will eventually disappear.. patience.. Rome wasn't built in a day
I mean its been 2 years and the changes were made gradually, it wasnt a case of trying one thing after another, i think ultimately this is an alage that behaves and reacts exactly like a plant, it adapts and thrives in the same conditions
I would just leave it to live as long as it likes to live there.
I do regularly remove hair algae, from the brightest areas of deep substrate long light hours filterless tanks of mine, but I feel I would never restart an ecosystem to control it, just build upon/ watch it evolves in natural complexity (food web/ seeded with lake water, some decaying leaves. And air-stone or sponge filter only active for some hours daily. Large Terrestrial plants with roots in the water= always 0 nitrites I. The water, without water changes .
Everything finds balance and harmony like so.
That's true.
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Have you tried patience and let do nature it's job balancing the tank ..... it's all about balance ....
Japonica shrimp devour the stuff! Not much else does from my experience
My Amano shrimp don’t touch it
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