Hair/Thread algae? CLADOPHORA sp. Algae?

[Blaze88]

Hi bros, i came back from malaysia and check on my tank to find these :







So it seems like its CLADOPHORA sp. algae infesting on my poor fissiden meshes
I have been reading around but there doesnt seem to be a proper solution besides manually removing them, could any bro confirm this and suggest a solution?

Thanks

[blue33]

Hydrogen Peroxide can kill them. Just use syringe inject on them, after that you can see shrimp comes and enjoy the cook feast. I see lots of dirts around also.

[blackBRUSHalgae]

I always throw in a rosy barb to deal with any form of green filamentous algae.... give it a week or two, and without fail the rosy barb empties every single strand of them!

[equidorz]

Does rosy barb attack CRS?

[blue33]

i believe they will eat anything that can fits into their mouth. Always a hungry fellow. lol

[Blaze88]

Hydrogen Peroxide can kill them. Just use syringe inject on them, after that you can see shrimp comes and enjoy the cook feast. I see lots of dirts around also.

Hydrogen peroxide as in those from the pharmacy? would it harm my lifestock?

yeah the shrimp poo which is stuck in there is hard to remove...

[blue33]

yes from the pharmacy. many people asked would it kill the livestock, so far after i dosed there's no casualty and shrimps were beside my syringe when i injected on the algae. . no guarantee on individual usage, try it at your own your risk. use a small hose and suck out those dirt, those algae usually appear when your tank has lots of dirt.

[equidorz]

i believe they will eat anything that can fits into their mouth. Always a hungry fellow. lol

Thank you for your reply. Noted. Looks like rosy barb is out for me then.

[barmby]

Its quite normal. Whatever fits.. everything goes. Even green neon will hunt for shrimplets.

[blackBRUSHalgae]

yep... law of nature...

but somehow my chocolate gourami and mini puffer would swim like next to a 2 or 3mm shrimplet... but do nothing about it... but they will feast on brine shrimps and boon... weird...

[blackBRUSHalgae]

i believe they will eat anything that can fits into their mouth. Always a hungry fellow. Lol

totally!!! during the time when mine was just slurping long green filamentous algae... it would pooped bright green stuffs all the time hahahaa...

[Jungle-mania]

I had the same issue before and it is hard to remove them, getting algae eaters are only temporary solution, but still essential. You need to watch the nutrient level in the water, use floating plants to soak up your nutrients too. I think you might be overfeeding your shrimps.

[tommy]

Grow denser mosses will keep the shrimplets safe while they grow bigger and stronger to escape from the fishes. that's work for my shrimplets... surviving and thriving... )

[Blaze88]

I had the same issue before and it is hard to remove them, getting algae eaters are only temporary solution, but still essential. You need to watch the nutrient level in the water, use floating plants to soak up your nutrients too. I think you might be overfeeding your shrimps.

I dun think feeding was it, i was away for 3 weeks in which i did not feed the shrimps at all. though my plants grew like mad along with the algae ><.

[Blaze88]

Grow denser mosses will keep the shrimplets safe while they grow bigger and stronger to escape from the fishes. that's work for my shrimplets... surviving and thriving... )

I've tried tat though, but when you first introduced the fish in, the shrimps would just go about their normal business, until there are a few casualties (nom nom nom) then they will all begin to hide and you can hardly see where your shrimps are =(

[alvinchan80]

Does the hydrogen peroxide work on the Cladophora? Will I be able to get the hydrogen peroxide from Guardian together with the syringe?
I am also having the same problem as you on my fissiden mesh and also they are growing out of my marimo moss ball..

ended up i tried dosing liquid co2 on my mesh until my fissiden looks badly burnt.. now just hope that they will regenerate and grow green again..

[blue33]

Dirt and light is the main culprit, when there's light(in any form) you need to provide CO2, unless your plant is growing in emmersed form which they can take in the CO2 from the open abundance air. Under dirt and light issue all sorts of algae will just come uninvited.

[blue33]

Fish will just find its way for food, especially the delicacy shrimps they can get.

I've tried tat though, but when you first introduced the fish in, the shrimps would just go about their normal business, until there are a few casualties (nom nom nom) then they will all begin to hide and you can hardly see where your shrimps are =(

[alvinchan80]

Dirt and light is the main culprit, when there's light(in any form) you need to provide CO2, unless your plant is growing in emmersed form which they can take in the CO2 from the open abundance air. Under dirt and light issue all sorts of algae will just come uninvited.

Sorry for OT bro Blaze88.

i have a 55w light on my 60x30x30 FivePlan tank with CO2 pumped in at 1.5bps. Cant really tell if there is a lot of dirt but water looks clear and i am doing 2 water changes per week. But the Cladophora seems to be growing everywhere especially extending from the marimo moss ball, out of my inlet sponge & also on a plant that looks like a gujing which is attached to a driftwood.

So can i just go to any pharmacy and purchase hydrogen peroxide and syringe, after that how much must i inject onto the Cladophora and it shouldnt cause any other damage to other fauna & flora right? the hydrogen peroxide will become other components right?

[blue33]

PM me if you want to find out more.