After you use an algacide and it's largely dead a good tip I would suggest is using a turkey baster to blow off the dead algae. Works very well and fast. It's a great aquarium tool.

Usually, algae growth most of the time is from overfeeding fish or too many nutrients. Are you using a liquid fertilizer?

Why use chemicals when you can just add up more plants to fight those algae. Not a good advice...

Agreed

Yes, I'm so tired with this obsession with algae removal that some people have. In my whole life I never have such a problem in any of my tanks. And I believe that's thanks to the fact that I don't use any filters or bubbles and my lots of floating plants.

That’s what the majority of videos on the topic seem to suggest…

I would love some but they might eat my fish 😢

Because most algaecide products get rid of it by blocking/removing oxygen from the water. Which can suffocate the fish too.

Something interesting is that glutaraldehyde (used in Flourish Excel, API CO2 Booster, and other liquid CO2 products) has been trialed as a fish poison by the United States Coast Guard and some fishkeepers have reported it giving their fish Dropsy.

@@mikefrost1312 That makes a lot of sense. I have decided to embrace the algae on the sides and back of the tank (not much left since I added in plants and algae eaters) and stayed away from chemicals.

@@FoolyLiving the algae will go away on its own anyways once your tank balances out !! I have algae in ALLL my tanks... But, it's just little spots here & there. Fish love to eat it if they can & it helps keep the water clean until you have complete balance. No real need to battle with it !!

I've had this new tank syndrome for 6 months now

Algaecides also run the risk of giving your fish Dropsy.

Thanks Lizzy! You got a planted tank???

yeah but muh product

Thanks ❤

If you already have the alagae none of that does much to help. I find it's much easier to figure out what went wrong and nuke the tank. 9 times out of 10 my alage doesn't come back.

This is the right approach. This video is not it.

I highly advise not getting livestock just to fix algae. Snails seem to only make my algae worse as they produce so much waste.

How big is that beast Do you think?

Underrated comment right here. Nature has the answers and has been creating them for millennia. Replicate nature and you won’t need chemicals🤷🏻‍♂️

Interesting. Like adding rocks from a river? Would that be good enough or adding water from a natural source?

@@christophergonzalez5717 Those sources would technically work, however they do not contain much surface area/organic matter so I would assume they would not be as effective as, say, filling the bottom of your tank with smelly lake mud and rotting vegetation.

That's just some drift wood with moss or some other plant attached to it to make it look like a tree

Seachem's Excell did get rid of my BBA but for some reason it does not get rid of brown algae

Hi, can you give me a more detailed steps please? I'm dealing with a brown algae

I've had great success with years expired API Algaefix. It killed my green hair algae and it seems to have killed my green spot algae too.

I agree that Chem is a joke and bad, the fight back and forth from adding Chem is horrible. Black out does not remove algae, is simply slows the growth. How ever you are correct in trying to go natural but if insist on Chem go with the treatment you mentioned.

I used to advocate for H2O2, but not anymore. It's not necessary and how would a 0.004% concentration even be effective? Does that work well? Good husbandry methods and patience will fix any issues. Plants never outcompete algae for nutrients. You can have a surplus of nutrients with little to no algae. Balance has to do with a mature periphyton biofilm growing on the plants, and mature microbial beds. As well as a low or sustainable organic fraction of TDS, which is dissolved organic carbon (DOC). Having appropriate light levels and a good clean-up crew with snails doesn't hurt. My plants grow slowly and I am relying on atmospheric CO2 at 3-4 ppm and I have very little algae. As well, his KH carbonate hardness could be too high, which can hinder plant growth, but that most likely isn't the case in this situation. He just has an immature setup with high DOC more than likely. You need to do more husbandry at the beginning of the setup because of the BOD (biochemical oxygen demand).

what about the plants?

Black out does nothing.

Good husbandry and patience will work well. Plants never outcompete algae for nutrients. You can have a surplus of nutrients with little to no algae. Balance has to do with a mature periphyton biofilm growing on the plants, and mature microbial beds. As well as a low or sustainable organic fraction of TDS, which is dissolved organic carbon (DOC). Having appropriate light levels and a good clean-up crew with snails doesn't hurt. My plants grow slowly and I am relying on atmospheric CO2 at 3-4 ppm and I have very little algae. As well, his KH carbonate hardness could be too high, which can hinder plant growth, but that most likely isn't the case in this situation. He just has an immature setup with high DOC more than likely. You need to do more husbandry at the beginning of the setup because of the BOD (biochemical oxygen demand).

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Good husbandry methods and patience will fix any issues. Plants never outcompete algae for nutrients. You can have a surplus of nutrients with little to no algae. Balance has to do with a mature periphyton biofilm growing on the plants, and mature microbial beds. As well as a low or sustainable organic fraction of TDS, which is dissolved organic carbon (DOC). Having appropriate light levels and a good clean-up crew with snails doesn't hurt. My plants grow slowly and I am relying on atmospheric CO2 at 3-4 ppm and I have very little algae. As well, his KH carbonate hardness could be too high, which can hinder plant growth, but that most likely isn't the case in this situation. He just has an immature setup with high DOC more than likely. You need to do more husbandry at the beginning of the setup because of the BOD (biochemical oxygen demand).

Dont use this stuff the cons outweigh the pros. Get natural solutions such as snails or amanos, get more plants and dose fertilizer, cut lighting

Yes!

I thought brown diatoms thrive in lower light. Wouldn’t you be working against your green plants when you want them to out compete the diatoms?

I think the problem was that I was overly exposing the tank with light at night, and since the tank is placed close to the window. It was getting plenty of sunlight, causing my tank to fog up green. Im still new to aquascaping, but as for im able to manage algaes by just cutting down light circulation. From 13 hours to 6 hours for one week and back to 13 hours, repeat. Sorry, I don't know the science behind why this works, but it does.

Im not sure of the algea im growing but i have some wood that was in my old tank. I boiled it, treated it with hydrogen peroxide, boiled it again than let it sun bake for a week. I put it in my new 125 gallon aquarium and right off the bat it grew a brown algea. None of the other wood has it, just that one. What would you recommend there? I had one guy tell me to get a syringe and shoot hydrogen peroxide right on the wood while still in the tank but im hesitant of that option. Its only been planted for about three weeks now.

@@yodaddy82daddy70 I'd remove it and soak it in hydrogen peroxide solution. Or leave it and let it clear on its own. It's probably because of to many nutrients, to much co2 and lights being on the Iong. Prevent the cause instead of cleaning the symptoms up.