Hello!! My tank has been set up for a couple months at this point I recently put a pair of pygmy corys in it. Originally I thought the algae was diatoms but as it's been a while and it has not gone away I'm thinking it's not that as well as some patches have become green and a bit stringy in...

Hi guys, I need some advice. I currently have a planted 60l tank. I pretty much did water changes every other day and noticed that when I dont do the water changes, i start to have hair algae. I recently converted this tank to a shrimp tank. Since i cant do water changes as often as i used to...

May i know what is this algae and what causes it? Its growing on the bottom part of the stem plants, the top parts are healthy

New here! I have a 10G tank that has been plagued with algae for some time. Here are the specs: No ferts/CO2 Weekly 25-30% water changes NICREW LED Light, 9 hours per day AquaClear 20 filter & sponge filter Temp stays ~78F Bare bottom 6 Chili rasbora 20-30+ RCS 2 Otos 1 Nerite This doesn’t...

I've got a newly setup cichlid tank. Saw this brown thing yesterday. So I did a water change, trimmed dead leaves and wiped it off from the glass? Is it still present in the water column? Is it bad for my fish and plants?

I finally got ahold if the BGA that has plagued my monte carlo and now some type of hair algae is popping up everywhere. Its even on my healthy fast growing stems. Some info: Light is a twinstar 450ea on a 5 gallon shallow tank. The light is definitely bright but I didn't barely have any hair...

Hi everyone. I am coming up on 4 weeks of my first aquascape. here are some details: 10 gallon, eco-complete substrate, driftwood, lots of plants i cant even name half of them, plant light by fluval set 7 hours a day at 25% intensity. (youtube directed me to use lower intensity because 10 gal is...

Please help me ID this algae. It is on glass,rocks, equipment and plants. It can easily be removed.

Hi! Can you guys help me identify this algae? I’m not really sure if it is diatom or string algae cause I know that diatoms are brown. The tank is pretty new, about 1 month old. 50% water change a week It would be greatly appreciated, Thanks :)

Any thoughts on how to get rid of this?

Hey yall, I recently set up a 10 gallon planted tank, im unsure of what stocking, but I currently have fluval stratum and driftwood, no plants. I am cycling with API quickstart as well as seachem stability. It took around two weeks for my ammonia to come down near 0, however I have not seen an...

Hi all, A while back I made a post about algae issues in my 10g planted tank (Help with Algae Bloom). One of the issues discovered was that my tank had high levels of phosphate (5-10ppm). That was 5 months ago. Since then Ive done a revamp of the tank because most plants were just covered in...

Alright aquarium community, I’ve got one for ya. Can somebody please tell me what these little root like hairs are that I have growing all over my tank? Doesn’t appear to be a form of algae or areal roots and I don’t know how to get rid of it.. I wish I could give you a better description but I...

I have 20 liters tank, This tank was full of rams horn snail and I kinda like how they clean the diatoms so I decided to keep them. And then I find out that they poop a looot, The substrate is small gravel and it’s hard to vacuum most of the poop, One week ago I decided to put assassins snails...

Hello all, I am 21 days into a new planted tank intended for cherry shrimps in the future. So far, everything seems fine, some of the plants are growing new leaves. However, as of the past few days, I am starting to see green algae growing on rocks and the surface of the glass, they aren't...

Hi guys! First post here so im gonna apologize for the long post. Just recently we upgraded our 55 gallon to a 150 gallon. We kept the cycle by moving gravel and didn’t add any new fish for a couple weeks. Water parameters have been consistently great since an initial ammonia spike. Wasn't...

I have just experienced sudden, rapid plant growth these last few days. These plants are growing like weeds and managed to grow almost a quarter to a half of my 75 gallon tank in just four days. However, I also noticed that green dust algae and thread/string algae started popping up. Could this...

I set up a new 30 gallon about 2 months ago and it's been going pretty well, most plants are doing really well and have grown incredibly fast in the last few weeks. Still having some slight issues with my repens, lost more than 100 of the 150 I initially planted. Good news is that the ones that...

Hi! Can i please get some help identifying this algae? I had a big CO2 fluctuation a few weeks back (CO2 ran out and wasnt running for a few days then after refilling was pumping way too much into the tank), ive gotten the levels sorted now but as a consequence this algae is threatening a take...