Algae help..!!!

Looks like hair algae. You can use a toothbrush and wrap it up and remove it that way. Comes off relatively easy.

Hopefully someone will post with some ideas but I think you're going to have a tough time saving that moss. I've not had the experience of it coming of "relatively easy". I would expect it to hold on to the moss tighter than the moss holds itself together. Another words, you'll probably just tear the moss up trying manual toothbrush removal. H2O2 and excel that hurt the algae will also hurt the moss.

I believe you have too much light for your tank. Can you reduce the intensity, and the photoperiod? Reducing intensity would be the first step.

Kubla said:

Hopefully someone will post with some ideas but I think you're going to have a tough time saving that moss. I've not had the experience of it coming of "relatively easy". I would expect it to hold on to the moss tighter than the moss holds itself together. Another words, you'll probably just tear the moss up trying manual toothbrush removal. H2O2 and excel that hurt the algae will also hurt the moss.

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Kubla, I agree about some of the moss coming with the algae, but don't you agree, moss is so resilient that it will recover? Even if you trimmed it back to get rid the algae the moss will survive. That's my experience with moss because it is, for lack of a better term, invasive. At least for me, I've tried to get Christmas moss out of my tank completely for 2 years and I cannot because one little piece sticks in a crevice and grows and on and on so I just live with it.

It's definitely worth trying to save. I know I worked on mine with manual removal for weeks and finally gave up and ditched the moss.

I’ve been picking at it… I don’t want to tare it apart completely my shrimp love to go in it..

With some meticulous time, you should be able to lower the amount manually of the algae on the moss. However more importantly to reduce it coming back, how many hours of light do you provide to the tank on a daily basis? I had a similar issue in my 30 gallon planted tank early on. I did not have this issue after cutting back the duration of LED light to the tank to less than 10 hours LED light per day. Initially I set timer for 12 hours which is just too many hours of daylight for a tank in most situations. I am not getting into further details which would be based on the LED PAR level of the LED light in question but just wanted to get this low hanging fruit point across for you to easily reduce this issue going forward.