what will you do if your tank become like this

[fireblade]

as the title say,

what will you do if your tank become like this

side view



front view

[Shadow]

nice grow of hair algae

[fireblade]

thank you thank you..

[GER]

Wow....jungle....Is that beard algae? For me, without doubt, im sure to tear the whole place down...Maybe before tearing it down i will draw out all the water and pour any bleach i can find into it to make myself feel better...I HATE ALGAE...

[fireblade]

not sure what algea is that..
thinking of tearing it down but no time to rescape...
thinking of throwing my normal pleco in to eat the algea because I took out 3 meshes with german fern and it finished the algea nicely and revealed the nice german fern..

[GER]

Not a bad idea...at least you got someone who will appreciate the algae...

[Shadow]

Yamato will also eat this algae, black out also work. How big is the tank? nuke it with H2O2

[fireblade]

from far it looks nice..hehe
but from near see liao faint.. :P

[craftsman]

Wow!! Were you out of the country for this to happen?

[fireblade]

no.. :P
all the while I am looking at this tank...
then increase air bubbling hope that it will improve air circulation but it becomes worst..

[adeguay]

I think you should take the challenge. Try to clear the algae and write down your experience to share with us.

[Shadow]

no.. :P
all the while I am looking at this tank...
then increase air bubbling hope that it will improve air circulation but it becomes worst..

I guess air bubble increase surface movement, drive out CO2, plant grow stunned thus algae getting worst

[unclerobin]

bro i salute you " algae 万岁，万岁" i got a tank at my corridor under direct sunlight i can't get this effect
btw are you using solar energy to drive your lighting. ( just joking, hope you don't mind)

[Viper007]

Bro, you must have not done water change for a long long long time!

BTW did you on the lights 24x7.

[bossteck]

I would add shrimps and take lots of "before and after" photos

[Viper007]

I would add shrimps and take lots of "before and after" photos

By then the shrimps will be big and fat.

[CK Yeo]

Of course submit to ADA competition! How more natural can it be?

ck

[Robert]

Hi,
I would clean the filter, do several larger water changes (50%), dump in a few dozen shrimps and wait. If the plants are hardy, dim the lights or turn them off for some days.

BTW, what is a German fern? I never heard of it, also I'm German.

best regards
Robert

[ZANE]

The way I see it you have 3 options.

1) Previously mentioned tear down the tank. Just give the darn thing away cuz algae spores gonna remain on wood, plants, soil, etc... even the glass. Start a-new.

2) Sincerely try to fight the algae by first manually removing as much as you can, reading up on how to combat the algae - then experimenting with the different methods published.

3) Make lemonade out of lemons! Invest in some cherry shrimp and start a cherry shrimp farm!!!!! LOLZ. Take out all the fish though. Then afew weeks later start selling the baby cherry shrimps.


Some advice though, I dont think regular plecos will eat this type of stuff. Even bushy nose plecos (supposedly best algea eater of plecos) may not touch this much stuff. Do some reading and decide which direction you want to take.

[flybaits]

nice bloom!!
u can try shrimps, GAEs, plecos (and not feeding them anything except algaes) as i have when algae (few kinds of algae btw) hits my 4ft tank. managed to save it.....

or to wash, dry and wait till u have time for re scape....

good luck!
cheers!!