New to planted tank. Need help to ID this algae and how to clear it.

**Neondagger** · 9th Oct 2011, 16:05

Just 24hrs ago. I pour 1.5 caps of seachem flourish excel into the tank and this translucent algae is all over my flame moss and plant. how do I kill all the algaes?

I am currently cycling the tank for CRS.
ammonia 8ppm
nitrite 0ppm
nitrate 20ppm

**Neondagger** · 10th Oct 2011, 22:27

I took some photo with a better camera.
I took out the wood and all the plants. did a 80% water change.
rinse my plants and moss in tap water.
After a day. It's still in my tank. It is stick on the soil. My filter manage to suck alot of time.
any idea what it is?

**Neondagger** · 10th Oct 2011, 22:30

**marimo** · 11th Oct 2011, 18:39

let me guess.. your tank is stagnant .. no circulation?
i cant see any algae in the picture except for HC

**Neondagger** · 12th Oct 2011, 14:00

This thing should not be a algae I guess cause it's not green. It look like tissue paper. It's all over my tank and soil

**Neondagger** · 12th Oct 2011, 14:01

My tank has a sponge filter and a eheim 2213 filter with a rainbar

**marimo** · 12th Oct 2011, 14:32

issit like white web looking thing
its some slime mold due to CO2 and lowlight and stagnant water
i got it last time, WC does not help, they just grow all over again in 24 hours.

its your excel, you are adding too much
how many litres is your tank?

rainbar only agitate surface. your plants are all bottom, i used a airstone and blast it underwater to drive away CO2

**Neondagger** · 12th Oct 2011, 22:07

ya the day before I added excel. I guess I overdosed it. I have 1 eheim filter and 1 sponge filter plus a rainbar. I still need a airstone? how to clear the mold? any idea to dissolve it? will it mutiply?

**marimo** · 13th Oct 2011, 18:51

i cant remember how , but i did WC, aerate the new water and put on light for 8 hours
they grew significant less till i threw a few plant that were decomposing.

Anyway i feel that you are screwing the cycling.
too much CO2, the BB also wont multiply as much. The ammonia also is abit high to start.
Do you use any commercial BB ?

**Neondagger** · 14th Oct 2011, 08:20

I got bt-9 and bactermax. But after dosing the recommended dose till now still cycling and the ammonia level is still damn high.

**Shadow** · 14th Oct 2011, 08:27

Originally Posted by Neondagger

This thing should not be a algae I guess cause it's not green. It look like tissue paper. It's all over my tank and soil

I cant see from the picture, but from your decription, it sound like fungus which normally grow on wood if you did not boiled first.

**Neondagger** · 14th Oct 2011, 14:30

I did boil my driftwood for about 1hr and cooling it before putting it in the tank. it been soaked for about 3-4days. After the infestation, I took out my driftwood and plants did 80% water change. rinse my flame moss in tap water, put it back in.
I am seeing it ytd again. not sure whats the cause of it.
I took my driftwood and resoak it in a bucket.
so my tank currently only got flame moss and us fissiden. It seem to be coming back cause ytd I spot it on my moss and some floating in the tank.
I would try to take a better photo of it and post it up when i get home.
I need to know whats causing it so I could stop it.

**RonWill** · 15th Oct 2011, 01:55

If it's green, grows like a sheet over plants and gravel AND it stinks, then that's BGA or Blue Green Algae. This isn't an algae but a bacteria, specifically, cyanobacteria. Several ways of ridding it but do your online research and get back to us.

**fusiller** · 20th Oct 2011, 14:53

I experience this white hair like fluffy algae on my hairgrass before.
Initially I thought it was Cyanobacteria. Do water change and clean with tooth brush it still come back.
After much research I found out that it was some type of brush algae.
Up the co2 and reduce the lighting period from 7hrs to 5 hrs per day.
Took 2 weeks for it to totally disappear.