I got rid of algae!
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I know this isn’t the most recent video, however, I felt that I needed to come back and comment so you know this. I watched this video 2 or 3 days ago and your tip to use a bamboo kebab skewer to twirl up the string algae has been THE most helpful and effective suggestion I’ve found in my fight against string algae in my little tiny tank. Bar none. Seriously. I decided to try it out today while I was doing a water change and shirt if nuking the tank from orbit, nothing else has ever gotten so much of the string algae out of the tank. Especially with so little effort. My algae levels were slowly decreasing already, but now, suddenly, it’s like a totally different aquarium. My little CRS has been out grazing, my older one still hides, and my blue Japanese guppies are both swimming around far more freely. So thank you. With that one suggestion, you’ve given me hope and encouragement that I’m not completely messing up. (Darn new-fangled technology! I never had this much algae before I switched to LED lights!) 😀
I love that you put so much thought into your videos that you plan these videos out months in advance and put in so much effort. Some people may not appreciate that so Thank You Mark!
Thank you very very much Mathew !!
Fantastic video with great tips. Awesome job Mark.
Thank you carbon rili
You should have a subscription from every shrimp keeper in the world. So much good information
Love your Videos. So helpful! Im so happy theres that kind of really good content on youtube.
Thank you so much
This video is so so useful and on point! And it corroborates my own theory about my fish tank: it has been suffering for some years with dead fish and dead plants and tons of algae all the time. I tried different things, nothing worked. Everybody was telling me the typical stuff: too much light, water changes, blah blah. And the part of the water changes is true, it helped, but didn't solved the problem. Til one day I decided to fertilize my plants: suddenly they all begun to bloom incredibly well and fast. The reason? They had the nutrients to grow, but were missing some minerals to develop. Once they had it, they begun to take all the nitrate from the water for themselves, outgrowing the algae so it disappeared and both the plants and the fish are now thriving.
My water is very soft at 4gh so same!! Im excited to fix my issue now that ive seen this video!
🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌 another great informative vid, Marky!!!
Thank you Tammyrowe1963 Tammy1963 !!!
Thanks for the education about to do this to my tank. Had same problem with the horn wort. Keep up the great work Mark~!
Awesome I am very happy someone will get use of it :)
Love your channel Mark, just had to say I found adult cherrys in old outside change water sitting at 42 Celsius/ 107.6 f its summer down under.
Great video i missed this kind of video from you!
Thank you dhm00
Great video as always!
Thank you Sir :)
Awesome post, indeed algue can be a pain. I have battled it for quite some time, changing little things and wait for a minimum of a few weeks to see what it does. Eliminating the possible cause one by one is the way to go.
yeah you are correct my friend thats why I waited weeks to show the tanks again :)
Another great informative video mate
Thank you very much Sean :)
I LOVE ALL OF UR VIDEOS !!!!
Thank you Requide !
Looks like all my tanks lol
👍 very good video.
I dont agree with you on washing filter media in tap water but have used your H202 method and it works a treat on bba algae.
Great tip on choosing plants for your water parameters too.
I have been doing this for about a year now and you can go onto any discus forum or google search it, contact time with our sponges and the tap isnt enough to kill bacteria , I know from doing invitro stuff that it takes alot more to kill it, I have to bleach rinse stuff and then wash samples in cuttings and then put them in containers that have been cleaned by steam to kill of mold and bacteria ...tap water will do very little to a sponge.
Thankx for posting this! I got 1-2 hairs hiding in my moss (keep plucking it but it comes back) and I think it's because my moss got too thick and some are dying with not enough light under.
Also, do I just wait one more day after a shrimp molt before doing a 20% of water change?
I just leave the water change to the next week when I see a female just molted or about to molt and yes you probably are correct on my you have some algae in the tank.
Thats was a great video Mark👍 So today iv learned it is ok to rinse your filter media under the tap. You said about the hornwort dying being the problem causing excessive nutrients! But what about all the leaves you have decomposing aswell? Also reference not water changing after a female has molted... How long should we wait?
Thanks Neil
The leaves are different and its very visible the hornwort just rots, regarding the molting female just skip that tank for a week this is what I do.
Thanks
Thank you so much
I keep amphipods, amano shrimp and snails in all my tanks and have very little algae. Heavily planted, high light/CO2.
What was the music at the end called?
Hello I was just wondering what u did to make ur oak leaves safe for your tank :))
Nothing at all my friend they went straight in the tank.
@@MarksShrimpTanks tanks for your advice :)))⬅️
How many nitrates and phosphates in this tank?
hello I would like to ask you for advice, I have a 30-liter aquarium, does a water change 2 times a month of 30% is good or it's a lot?
for shrimp its to much at once try just 10% every week or two :)
@@MarksShrimpTanks Ok thx u so musch ur the best !
Hi mark i have a some question! The one algae on the wall color green and brown algae is helpful for the water quality? The algae on the wall also working like a plants?
yes algae feed of nutrients in a tank so its very helpful
@@MarksShrimpTanks okay so i won't clean the wall in my beeshrimp tank :) how about fish tank??? also helpful for the water?
Yeah I'm starting to see this i can not do the same for my fish as i do for my shrimp
How about that topic for next vid .Tank pests, microorganisms in tank. Helpful or not. Ways to get rid of them
How often should you use the h2o2 method?
I only did it once in these tanks and I only do it if I see something wrong.
Hey, OMG... Light bulb turned on. Its the duck weed!!! I have duck weed only tanks same issue. All the dead duck weed on the bottom of the tank. looks like dirt..... only the tanks I have tons of duck weed in bloom more duckweed... hummm...I think it feeds itself??? the duck weed hides in the substrate then blooms the algae after you remove the top duckweed. what do you think?
What are those bricks with the holes in them? Are they like terracotta?
They are made from red clay
But I'm now working with duck weed but it's not working or growing the horn worth is dying try to make it safe for my shrimp but don't think they like shrimp
What grade of H2O2 are you using?
food grade
Is that a brick used to make buildings? Is it safe for shrimps? I have many so i can use them for my shrimp tank
no its not shrimp safe all my shrimp died 🤣
@@MarksShrimpTanks pun intend
i noticed you ran those sponges under tap water??? are you on a well? where im from the chlorine would have just destroyed your bacteria colony and you would have to cycle again
There isnt enough chlorine in tapwater to kill a filter in a few seconds of rinsing, I dont have chlorine though and I only do half my sponge filters in one tank at a time.
So i need to have visible algea buildup to know there is enough for babies to eat?
yes or what we call biofilm which is made up of bacteria and algae and other things.
@@MarksShrimpTanks ok, my 10 gallon is established and my shrimps have berried, lots of live plants but i dont see any algea build up. I run the light more than 12 hours per day with no increase in algea. Anything i can do?
This Algae is the most annoying thanks for posting this.
looks like you never had blue-green algae infestation lol
this scares me but I do have snails that eat dying plants.
I can go from 0:10 to 0:12 overnight! Just throw some amanos in 😉
How to remove green fluppy algae from soil ????
with your fingers hahaha
@@MarksShrimpTanks hahahahaha ..........!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Aqua scaping and shrimp keeping may be different..I cant see an aqua scape encouraging shrimp friendly algae..pristine water etc. ..you can have both of course...but it doesn't make sense...unless amano shrimp and nano fish...
for sure joe
You know Mark Hornwort releases anti algae oil in the water
It didnt do it in my tanks for sure
Algae Annihilation!
Hydrogen peroxide?
i feel like if u sloped ur substrate they would look so much better .... on top of that we would see more shrimp ! :)
I have trumpet snails that would just even it out again :D
Shrimps love dark ??
I think you might be right, a tank with some dark is good I think
@@MarksShrimpTanks Also phothos absorb nitrate ammonia etc so you can have phothos roots in the water increasing fight for nutrients
I’d like to point out that 50 liters divided by 10 is 5 liters. Maybe it should be 50L divided by 1000 is 0.005 liters or 5mL.
I've been told algae removing products/chemicals are harmful to amphibians and crustaceans? I have axolotls, african clawed frogs and fresh water shrimps.
Yes most of them are, good call 👍
If you pack the tank full of large numbers of shrimp, and don't feed them, won' they just eat all the algae?
I had a bit of these algae when i cycled my tank and as soon as i have had (not sur sorry i'm french) ad my red cherry shrimp they desapire in two days. Maybe they don't eat every kind of algae but if your water is ok for shrimps, you may give it a try
Would 6% be OK to use like that
I will have to google this :)
Yes just cut the amount you use by half :)
Thanks Mark
I am Groot
Mark, love your videos! You gave me the ambition to start keeping shrimp. Last year I've started my first red cherry shrimp tank, and few months later here is my super berried female: th-cam.com/video/if8rxkkETqg/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for all the useful information you give through your videos!
Decaying leaves are most likely the culprit
You can see even on my most recent 5 weeks from this videos the algae has not returned and I still have the same leaves:)
Decaying leaves don’t cause algae growth. They break down with the tannings and if you have any living organisms in the tank the eat them readily. I leave all leaves in my tank unless I think they look ugly and replace them and never had algae issues
I AM GROOT!
quantity tanks not quality
I just bought 3 blue shrimp & 3 red. It was hard to get the right water, I absolutely dislike the idea of adding calcium tablets.
WHF is this a 30 minutes video?
HAHAHAHA awesome comment thanks for watching all 30 minutes.