Help algae!!

SheenaB · 08/05/2015, 12:46 PM

Hi all
My tank is 3 months old, I am having an out break of algae. Levels are stable at zeros but nirates keep going up between 10-20. I'm currently doing 20% water changes each week.
The algae is light brown small hairy dusty looking not like diatoms I don't think
I try get a photo added
Any advice please on how to get rid of it/ clean it and what type of algae it could be?

My tank
270l with skimmer, uv filter, pumps, filter charcoal bag, t5 lights
Livestock
2 clowns
1 royal gamma
1 chalk goby
5 damselfish
2 hermits
1 Halloween hermit
2 peppermint shrimps
1 sexy shrimp
5 turbo snails
5 nirtus snails
1 zoya coral

Thanks Sheena

SheenaB · 08/05/2015, 12:52 PM

SheenaB · 08/05/2015, 12:53 PM

algae pic

tazdvl · 08/05/2015, 01:14 PM

I would start by checking Phosphates.

Rob6311 · 08/05/2015, 01:37 PM

Yes I would definitely check phosphates and also if you don't already have one get a siphoning aquarium vacuum thing and what I did is I had an old store rewards card that I don't use anymore and I glued it to the vac part so it acts as a scrapper and vacs it up at the same time. And also I jus recently got a TLF hang on the back phoaban reactor and a small pump to go with it and it works great. So I would hook that up start scraping the stuff off the glass and see what happens

08/05/2015, 12:46 PM	#1
SheenaB Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2015 Location: Cambridge UK Posts: 6	Help algae!! Hi all My tank is 3 months old, I am having an out break of algae. Levels are stable at zeros but nirates keep going up between 10-20. I'm currently doing 20% water changes each week. The algae is light brown small hairy dusty looking not like diatoms I don't think I try get a photo added Any advice please on how to get rid of it/ clean it and what type of algae it could be? My tank 270l with skimmer, uv filter, pumps, filter charcoal bag, t5 lights Livestock 2 clowns 1 royal gamma 1 chalk goby 5 damselfish 2 hermits 1 Halloween hermit 2 peppermint shrimps 1 sexy shrimp 5 turbo snails 5 nirtus snails 1 zoya coral Thanks Sheena Last edited by SheenaB; 08/05/2015 at 12:55 PM.

08/05/2015, 12:53 PM	#3
SheenaB Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2015 Location: Cambridge UK Posts: 6	algae pic algae pic Last edited by SheenaB; 08/05/2015 at 12:59 PM.

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08/05/2015, 01:14 PM	#4
tazdvl Registered Member Join Date: May 2013 Posts: 127	I would start by checking Phosphates.

08/05/2015, 01:37 PM	#5
Rob6311 Registered Member Join Date: May 2014 Posts: 704	Yes I would definitely check phosphates and also if you don't already have one get a siphoning aquarium vacuum thing and what I did is I had an old store rewards card that I don't use anymore and I glued it to the vac part so it acts as a scrapper and vacs it up at the same time. And also I jus recently got a TLF hang on the back phoaban reactor and a small pump to go with it and it works great. So I would hook that up start scraping the stuff off the glass and see what happens