Sometime around mid January I started to get this brown algae. The tank seems to do fine. I have to trim my plants every week, they pearl and new growth is there.
This stuff coats the plants. Not fully but on the edges mostly. I can shake the plants and it floats off and gets in the water column. As you can see in the picture.
I do weekly water changes, keep my N at about 10, P at 0.1-0.2 and K around 10-20. I also dose Kent's Botanica Grow and Micro twice weekly at half the weekly dose on the bottle.
The tank is a 20 gallon long, 55 watts CF, ph around 6.6.
I've read adding more light would help brown algae. I don't have any more light fixtures to toss on top.
I have 4 otos in the tank, an ancistrus and Pseudotothyris janeirensis (think he eats algae - not sure yet - picked up as a miss labeled oto.)
I don't know what else to do. Any suggestions?
This stuff coats the plants. Not fully but on the edges mostly. I can shake the plants and it floats off and gets in the water column. As you can see in the picture.
I do weekly water changes, keep my N at about 10, P at 0.1-0.2 and K around 10-20. I also dose Kent's Botanica Grow and Micro twice weekly at half the weekly dose on the bottle.
The tank is a 20 gallon long, 55 watts CF, ph around 6.6.
I've read adding more light would help brown algae. I don't have any more light fixtures to toss on top.
I have 4 otos in the tank, an ancistrus and Pseudotothyris janeirensis (think he eats algae - not sure yet - picked up as a miss labeled oto.)
I don't know what else to do. Any suggestions?