Anyone got any hints or tips or anything to control an explosion of Red hair algae. Blowing up everywhere...
I am trying to regulate the water quality closely right at the moment. I have also tried a little bit of H2O2 to kill some off. Pulling out the driftwood, and using a toothbrush (not my currently used toothbrush...) to brush it off. I am just having a really hard time getting this tank to rise above the algae problem. I have a couple of possible reasons that I am working on.
1. I don't have enough plants in the tank and need to up it a bit. This option wouldn't be too bad anyway, because I think it needs some more anyway.
2. I have 2 Firemouths, and a Convict living there right now. I had a couple of tetras playing with them, but we moved recently and I lost them. Is it possible that the cichlids, being messy eaters, are just making too much of a mess in the tank and upping the nutrients in the water?
The tank is a 40g by the way. I have a Rena canister filter under the stand, and a powerhead moving water. I keep it set at about 79 degrees, I also have a 50/50 CF light with a moonlight that gets about 13 hours of light.
I am trying to regulate the water quality closely right at the moment. I have also tried a little bit of H2O2 to kill some off. Pulling out the driftwood, and using a toothbrush (not my currently used toothbrush...) to brush it off. I am just having a really hard time getting this tank to rise above the algae problem. I have a couple of possible reasons that I am working on.
1. I don't have enough plants in the tank and need to up it a bit. This option wouldn't be too bad anyway, because I think it needs some more anyway.
2. I have 2 Firemouths, and a Convict living there right now. I had a couple of tetras playing with them, but we moved recently and I lost them. Is it possible that the cichlids, being messy eaters, are just making too much of a mess in the tank and upping the nutrients in the water?
The tank is a 40g by the way. I have a Rena canister filter under the stand, and a powerhead moving water. I keep it set at about 79 degrees, I also have a 50/50 CF light with a moonlight that gets about 13 hours of light.