Outbreak~~

[wenjun]

Wrapped up your whole tank, do not on the lights for 3 to 1 week.
This works for me, green algae just dies off.

You could still on your light for maybe 3 sessions of 15mins per day to allow your plants to photosynthesis.

This is what i did. Really works.

Originally Posted by wenjun

Wrapped up your whole tank, do not on the lights for 3 to 1 week.
This works for me, green algae just dies off.

You could still on your light for maybe 3 sessions of 15mins per day to allow your plants to photosynthesis.

This is what i did. Really works.

green algae & hair algae will die off in the same way right? wrapping up my tank might work, but will the plants end up giving co2 instead of o2 to the water?? no light means plant no grow which = plant death...

[pome422]

eh can anyone post pics of hair algae? i'm not sure if my us fissidens has sprouted some hair algae.... looks like some hair-like extensions from the tip of the moss.

does us fissidens look any bit like hair at all? i ask coz my fissidens are still young (a few months old only). i'm keeping some chinese algae eaters in my tank.

your courtesy of google image.

imo Co2 and lighting issues have to be addressed if not this problem is gonna persist alongside other algae problems at least to reduce it.

[pome422]

i just went to look at my tank. looks like i got hair algae on my us fissidens... argh. my tank doesn't seem to have signs of any algae on the tank walls. i got 2 chinese algae eaters. also got cardinal tetras and corys. from the looks of it, my hair algae problem looks pretty early stage (coz it's only on a few meshes of fissidens) but i want to nip it now b4 it kills my beautiful us fissidens. no signs of hair algae elsewhere in my tank.

any ideas how to solve this problem in the long term? would just amano shrimp do? can they comm with my cardinal tetras, corys and chinese algae eater? my tank has no CO2 and lighting is a combi of natural filtered sunlight (since my tank's in the balcony) and a few hrs of aquarium lighting every few days.

Originally Posted by pome422

i just went to look at my tank. looks like i got hair algae on my us fissidens... argh. my tank doesn't seem to have signs of any algae on the tank walls. i got 2 chinese algae eaters. also got cardinal tetras and corys. from the looks of it, my hair algae problem looks pretty early stage (coz it's only on a few meshes of fissidens) but i want to nip it now b4 it kills my beautiful us fissidens. no signs of hair algae elsewhere in my tank.

any ideas how to solve this problem in the long term? would just amano shrimp do? can they comm with my cardinal tetras, corys and chinese algae eater? my tank has no CO2 and lighting is a combi of natural filtered sunlight (since my tank's in the balcony) and a few hrs of aquarium lighting every few days.

mine also started with having hair algae on us fissiden meshes..

as far as i know, not many fauna eats hair algae.. what i actually did was to take out the mesh & put them into a basin with tank water... then manually pluck out those that i can see from the mesh and throwing away those that i plucked out and away from the mesh. (you can try dosing the mesh with Flourish Excel or Liquid CO2 before putting it back into the tank)

After that, i actually gave daily liquid CO2 doses into my tank to actually provide more CO2 for the plants (as well as try to stop the algae from growing)

this seems to be working & i dont see any hair algae growing for now..

dont really know if amano shrimps can do the job because i dont dare to put them in with my CRS (size difference)..

if you need to get liquid CO2, you can let me know. I am currently changing to pumping CO2 into my tank via cylinder/diffusor..

If its just a small patch with the hair algae, you can pluck that area out along with the moss before it spreads further. Although you loose a tree there but you might save the forest...

the long term solution is to find the equilibrium between Co2 and lighting.

[pome422]

Originally Posted by alvinchan80

mine also started with having hair algae on us fissiden meshes..

as far as i know, not many fauna eats hair algae.. what i actually did was to take out the mesh & put them into a basin with tank water... then manually pluck out those that i can see from the mesh and throwing away those that i plucked out and away from the mesh. (you can try dosing the mesh with Flourish Excel or Liquid CO2 before putting it back into the tank)

After that, i actually gave daily liquid CO2 doses into my tank to actually provide more CO2 for the plants (as well as try to stop the algae from growing)

this seems to be working & i dont see any hair algae growing for now..

dont really know if amano shrimps can do the job because i dont dare to put them in with my CRS (size difference)..

if you need to get liquid CO2, you can let me know. I am currently changing to pumping CO2 into my tank via cylinder/diffusor..

for me, shrimp size is no problem as i got no resident shrimp around and i'm sure my fishes are pretty big enough to fend for themselves. as for liquid CO2: where can u get it? and what's the concentration that's effective against the hair algae? i'm a bit worried abt CO2 coz i'm afraid it might screw up my pH balance. maybe i can manually remove the hair algae for now and stop my fertilizer dosings.

Originally Posted by pome422

for me, shrimp size is no problem as i got no resident shrimp around and i'm sure my fishes are pretty big enough to fend for themselves. as for liquid CO2: where can u get it? and what's the concentration that's effective against the hair algae? i'm a bit worried abt CO2 coz i'm afraid it might screw up my pH balance. maybe i can manually remove the hair algae for now and stop my fertilizer dosings.

well, i got mine at a LFS at Serangoon North.. (PetMart).. currently already pumping in CO2 into the water as i have introduced some plants so hoping that it will be better.. i do understand that PH might drop, and i just did a test & my PH was 6.4!! but i did a water change.. and will be measuring in awhile....