Hi people, my 3 feet tank suddenly got infested with brown hair algae. I doze 5ml of Tropica fertilizer each week. T5 light. The algae didn't appear until last week where I did a water change and removed. This week there was a sudden bloom and most of my windelov and mosses have the algae growing on it. Besides physically removing them, what are the other methods which I can do to get rid of them? Thanks in advance!
my tank just recovered from a bout of brown hair algae, but the cause of it was excess iron. i was doing Seachem Flourish Trace and API Leaf Zone for extra iron (since seachem trace doesn't contain iron) and the brown hair algae just burst forth.
did my usual 50% water change last saturday and changed to Wonder-gro micro+ with no extra iron dosage, and my brown hair algae has disappeared. perhaps check the iron content in your Tropica fertilizers and see if you can reduce the dosage?
come to think of it. i did dose quite a lot of iron (separate solution from my tropica) into my tank for my tiger lotus last weekend. will do a water change and physically remove the algae. Quite a pain in the *** to remove them from my mosses and windelov. argh.
yeah it's probably the iron causing it then. cut away the affected leaves and vacuum away what you can using a siphon, then do a large water change and don't dose as much iron.
my algae literally disappeared after a few days
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