Losing the war against the stupid hair algae..

[Barra21]

bro, dun worry about the moss. pump some co2, up ur lighting a little and u'll see improvement. keep ur fans running too. try not to let ur temp exceed 30 degrees.

[skipjackies]

Samuel,
regarding your step 5, you should increase CO2 instead. Nevertheless, I had a similar algae outbreak like yours before. My US fissidens, japanese hairgrass and crypt. parva are infested as what you described-"black & clustered". Here's what I done:

1) I bleach the equipments(i.e CO2 diffusor) infested with algae
2) Introduced a young SAE(total length around 2 inches long)
3) Clean my filter and increase CO2 rate.

Within two days, my hair algae are all cleared and nowhere to be seen. The SAE is capable of removing hair algae from my fissidens neatly[ ]. I let the SAE remains in the main tank for an additional week and ensure all my plants are growing well before removing it. Yamato shrimps somehow are less interested in the hair algae than SAE.

Sorry I just started in keep moss and plant too and have the same problem. As you mentioned bleaching your equipment, is it those household bleach and what is the ratio you mixed? Please advice. Thanks

[samuelgoh]

bro, dun worry about the moss. pump some co2, up ur lighting a little and u'll see improvement. keep ur fans running too. try not to let ur temp exceed 30 degrees.

i added another fan.
nw running at around 27.3 degrees.
but i think the moss is gone...
cos usually , it will just take the most a week for the moss to respond.
the other plants are thriving (IE the rotalas , fissiden, taiwan etc) but not the "excel-ed" spiky moss...
I think they are somehow dead....
think its time to replace the lawn of them