It would be good to also know your lighting schedule, and whether any direct sunlight falls on the tank.
Vertdaubet on
Add snails and shrimp, especially Amano shrimp!
SqueakyManatee on
My first thoughts were a large water change and a black out.
Pepetheparakeet on
Get some anacharis it will suck out excess nutrients and it grows so fast it will start to block out some light.
IpodMods on
Drain it and start again
nobuddiforu on
Remove manually as much as you can and black out, use algae removers. It will take a long time
idkwhattofeelrnthx on
Pick it up with a fork by twirling it like you would spaghetti. Once you’re gathered enough, pull it out with a net. Repeat until all the green pasta is gone then do a large water change and check your parameters before and after. See if it’s balanced for your bio load and make adjustments in dosing with the appropriate light settings. Don’t forget internal lights if on all night or sunlight will also play into the light duration.
East_Sun8622 on
Give 1,000 shrimp the best meal of their lives
ventin on
Less light, less nutrients, grab some chopsticks and twirl as much of it out as you can. Root some pothos out the back of the tank.
lnicholek on
…new everything
geminitobacco on
turn off the lights, cut back all feeding to next to nothing and do a 50% water change. in the filter put a uv light
Own_Possibility_5124 on
Release the shrimp!!!!
RedNibbit on
All of the above + a pleco
Casp001 on
Nuke it from space. It’s the only way to be sure.
Or . . . . You could do a black out and scrub surafaces like a mother trucker
cobalt_phantom on
Algae blooms are caused by an excess of light and nutrients. I’d recommend keeping the lights off for at least a week and manually removing as much algae as possible. I’d also monitor the water parameters and do a few water changes over the next two weeks to get rid of those extra nutrients and make sure your cycle is fine. Once the algae looks manageable, I would slowly bring back the light and try out different intensities and durations and what works best. Adding some nerite snails and amano shrimp can help but they’re better for preventing outbreaks by cleaning up small spots of algae. They wouldn’t make a noticeable difference in its current state.
Kind-Scallion-1195 on
I want this so I can stop feeding my shrimp, nothing wrong with algae. Wish people would stop wasting money to nuke it
Stuffstuff1 on
Shrimp it up. And sell them after you have a thousand of them. You can make money off this
Bitter-Power4252 on
This really isn’t that bad. Looks like there’s no livestock, and no plants. So IF that is correct. How I would go about it is I’d pick up a spray bottle of hydrogen peroxide at the drug store. Drain the tank as much as possible, spray it all down with peroxide and let it sit for 30 mins. Then refill with tap water, don’t worry if there’s chlorine in it. You’re gonna nuke the bacteria anyways.
Cover the top with trash bags to hold in any moisture, and cover the entire thing in blankets or aluminum foil to do a complete blackout. Leave it blacked out for 7 days. Uncover, do a water change and spray all the hardscape down while you’re vacuuming all the hardscape to remove the dead algae. Let it rest for a few days, and do the water change again. This time make sure you vacuum all the detritus from the gravel. You have two problems that got you to this point. Excess/imbalanced nutrients and light.
After you get it all under control, put dimmers on those lights and drop it to half the light intensity. Add some good plants, some snails, and some cheap fish or do a fishless cycle with ammonia. Once you’re cycled, restock the tank and stay on top of those water changes.
BBitterBitches on
Remove eat piece and rub them clean or like someone else said you can get shrimp but they are $3-$4 a piece so it would be costly. I ended up scrapping my tank and starting over
PopTartsNHam on
Handful of amanos shrimp
emeraldvirgo on
Had an 11-gal with a breakout like this. Gathered it up, then fed it to clean-looking shrimp and snails tank. They demolished it.
Palegreenhorizon on
Honestly it would be cool to see what would happen with shrimp but make sure the water is safe parameters wise.
notjustanycat on
How long has this tank been running? It looks like it needs regular water changes, but if you’re already doing that less light and a UV sterilizer and also checking your source water for nitrogen.
This isn’t a problem you “clean up,” usually. I’ve had tanks go through a phase like this when I’m cycling with a heavy bioload. Don’t know precisely why your tank looks like this but the first step is usually to check ammonia/nitrites/nitrates and do water changes. Dim the lights, too.
Amiaocellicauda on
I would just clean the front pane it would look amazing I bet
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It would be good to also know your lighting schedule, and whether any direct sunlight falls on the tank.
Add snails and shrimp, especially Amano shrimp!
My first thoughts were a large water change and a black out.
Get some anacharis it will suck out excess nutrients and it grows so fast it will start to block out some light.
Drain it and start again
Remove manually as much as you can and black out, use algae removers. It will take a long time
Pick it up with a fork by twirling it like you would spaghetti. Once you’re gathered enough, pull it out with a net. Repeat until all the green pasta is gone then do a large water change and check your parameters before and after. See if it’s balanced for your bio load and make adjustments in dosing with the appropriate light settings. Don’t forget internal lights if on all night or sunlight will also play into the light duration.
Give 1,000 shrimp the best meal of their lives
Less light, less nutrients, grab some chopsticks and twirl as much of it out as you can. Root some pothos out the back of the tank.
…new everything
turn off the lights, cut back all feeding to next to nothing and do a 50% water change. in the filter put a uv light
Release the shrimp!!!!
All of the above + a pleco
Nuke it from space. It’s the only way to be sure.
Or . . . . You could do a black out and scrub surafaces like a mother trucker
Algae blooms are caused by an excess of light and nutrients. I’d recommend keeping the lights off for at least a week and manually removing as much algae as possible. I’d also monitor the water parameters and do a few water changes over the next two weeks to get rid of those extra nutrients and make sure your cycle is fine. Once the algae looks manageable, I would slowly bring back the light and try out different intensities and durations and what works best. Adding some nerite snails and amano shrimp can help but they’re better for preventing outbreaks by cleaning up small spots of algae. They wouldn’t make a noticeable difference in its current state.
I want this so I can stop feeding my shrimp, nothing wrong with algae. Wish people would stop wasting money to nuke it
Shrimp it up. And sell them after you have a thousand of them. You can make money off this
This really isn’t that bad. Looks like there’s no livestock, and no plants. So IF that is correct. How I would go about it is I’d pick up a spray bottle of hydrogen peroxide at the drug store. Drain the tank as much as possible, spray it all down with peroxide and let it sit for 30 mins. Then refill with tap water, don’t worry if there’s chlorine in it. You’re gonna nuke the bacteria anyways.
Cover the top with trash bags to hold in any moisture, and cover the entire thing in blankets or aluminum foil to do a complete blackout. Leave it blacked out for 7 days. Uncover, do a water change and spray all the hardscape down while you’re vacuuming all the hardscape to remove the dead algae. Let it rest for a few days, and do the water change again. This time make sure you vacuum all the detritus from the gravel. You have two problems that got you to this point. Excess/imbalanced nutrients and light.
After you get it all under control, put dimmers on those lights and drop it to half the light intensity. Add some good plants, some snails, and some cheap fish or do a fishless cycle with ammonia. Once you’re cycled, restock the tank and stay on top of those water changes.
Remove eat piece and rub them clean or like someone else said you can get shrimp but they are $3-$4 a piece so it would be costly. I ended up scrapping my tank and starting over
Handful of amanos shrimp
Had an 11-gal with a breakout like this. Gathered it up, then fed it to clean-looking shrimp and snails tank. They demolished it.
Honestly it would be cool to see what would happen with shrimp but make sure the water is safe parameters wise.
How long has this tank been running? It looks like it needs regular water changes, but if you’re already doing that less light and a UV sterilizer and also checking your source water for nitrogen.
This isn’t a problem you “clean up,” usually. I’ve had tanks go through a phase like this when I’m cycling with a heavy bioload. Don’t know precisely why your tank looks like this but the first step is usually to check ammonia/nitrites/nitrates and do water changes. Dim the lights, too.
I would just clean the front pane it would look amazing I bet