This is my betta Molecule, shes in a 10 gallon. She used to have kuhli loach friends, and this used to be planted. Ive been dealing with all sorts of algae for a year now its been so annoying. It destroyed my plants and spread to my other tank. It clogged the fuck out of the filters and wouldn't go away no matter wtf I did. I was manually removing it all the time. But one of my kuhli loaches passed away and is couldn't see it hidden in the debre and my tank exploded basically. I had to strip everything from the tank and now im stuck in a cycle of mixing up algae debre into the filter and clearing it out. Im swinging the net through the water catching everything. Im worried about my betta but shes taking it like a champ. Shes just having fun in her snow globe and following the net. But ive been treating it with some basic pet store algae stuff and it wasn't helping at all. I did black outs, leaving it alone, not leaving it alone, waiting it out, NOT waiting it out. Omg this stupid algae is screwing me over. Normally i dont care much about algae but this stuff blocks my filters and grows all over my wood and rocks and literally grows ON MY FILTER. Someone please help me how do I get rid of this for good. Im just trying to have pretty tanks like everyone else 😭
Posted by Own_Adhesiveness2829
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No one get mad at me for how the tank looks now please 🙏 im just let’s the water cycle and clear and removing all the floating algae bits from the water
flourish excel
You need plants to outcompete with the algae timer on your light as well
Buy a riparium plant holder and a cheap pothos from a home center. Wash all the soil off the roots and pop it in the holder and hang it on your tank. It will pull out a lot of excess nutrients from the water column.