Lights are only on for 6 hours each day. I have a pleco, multiple otocinclus fish and nerite snails, and nothing is helping to get the different types of algae under control. I’m not overfeeding the fish either. What else can I do to help decrease all this algae?? It’s suffocating my plants. I tried removing it manually but it didn’t make a dent, it rips too easily and I can’t get it all off. I had an Apple snail at one point but it was eating all my healthy plants and escaping from the tank every night. She eventually passed away but now this algae problem is killing me.
Posted by Maleficent_Okra4151
3 Comments
add some floaters and dim your light
Few things that may help:
* You have nerites. Nerites are huge snails. Add some ramshorns or bladder snails. They will crawl all over the tank and eat anything they can (they won’t eat all algaes, but most) and they will reproduce until they run out of algae and other stuff to eat.
* Shrimp help too, so if you don’t have fish that will eat the shrimp then put some shrimp in there.
* The algae is feeding on nitrates and other nutrients in your tank. Do some water changes and/or get some terrestrial or floating plants that will quickly convert that to plant matter.
Once you’ve done that, you can up the light duration. I run most of my tanks at 10 hours a day.
Definitely add some shrimp and or snails that will eat it up