Easily Get Rid Of Algae OVERNIGHT...
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 มี.ค. 2023
- From time to time I use algaecides to stop algae from taking over and ruining my plants. It's a band-aid.. If you don't try making small changes in lighting, feeding and other inputs, most of the time it will just come right back. Sometimes, It just works and you don't need to do anything extra...
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After you use an algacide and it's largely dead a good tip I would suggest is using a turkey baster to blow off the dead algae. Works very well and fast. It's a great aquarium tool.
Usually, algae growth most of the time is from overfeeding fish or too many nutrients. Are you using a liquid fertilizer?
Why use chemicals when you can just add up more plants to fight those algae. Not a good advice...
That is honestly one of the most beautiful and stunning tanks I have ever seen in my entire life
Agreed
🙏 Better natural solution to reduce unwanted nuisance algae is to add more floating plants , reduced light duration & intensity , add Amano cleaning shrimps or Siamese algae eaters & good algae eating snails ... Clean out manually stubborn algae & changed water 1/3 per week & only clean filter membranes lightly & gently with dirty aquarium water to maintain healthy good bacteria colonies to neutralized ammonia & nitride in the aquarium ... 🙏 Thank You for the aquarium maintenance tips! 🌷🌿🐠
Yes, I'm so tired with this obsession with algae removal that some people have. In my whole life I never have such a problem in any of my tanks. And I believe that's thanks to the fact that I don't use any filters or bubbles and my lots of floating plants.
way better to use more plants floating ones are especially usefull against algae
Damn the amount of advice to do anything else than what has worked for you is staggering.
I have amano. I have snails. I have plants. I still get algae off and on.
Do what works for you. I'm going to try this if I get another big bloom but I'vebeen good fora while. Thanks for the advice!
That aquascape is unbelievably good....👍🏴
Thats a sick tank and def a type of build im going to replicate for my second axolotl😃
That tank is wonderfully blissful
Amano shrimps are the best. You can keep lights off for a bit or do more water changes every 5 days or so
It looks diatoms which will eventually go away as the tank matures better have some patience and regular maintenance
That’s what the majority of videos on the topic seem to suggest…
I put pothos at the top of all my new tanks to prevent algae while I'm dosing fertilizers to get the rest of the plants started.. especially if the tank is mostly slower growing type plants. They'll still get the nutrients they need when I dose it but, the pothos will take in anything extra & not leave much at all for any algae growth.. other than the normal brownish spots here & there on the glass that eventually go away anyway once the tank balances itself out. Having a mix of top level fish, bottom feeders & algae eaters helps too.
Lower the amount of CO2 in your aquarium . Also another good thing too is don’t put plant fertilizers. If you’re going to have any plants it’s way better to just make a dirted tank. Also, by adding pieces of dead fish into your substrate, it will provide all the nutrients your plants need, and thus will also prevent all the algae, from growing I’ve been fishing for 10 years now and I haven’t had an issue with algae
Very cool, aquashella was a lot smaller than this a few years ago, it has grown
Nothing beats brown algae better than a hungry molly 😅
It’s just diatoms normal part of new tank syndrome.
They eventually go away after a couple of weeks. A few Amanos would love these as a tasty snack.
I've had this new tank syndrome for 6 months now
Throw in some floater plants and start a tank blackout routine ... those floaters will soak up them nutrients before the algae gets it ... i dunno i tend to try stay away from chemicals as much as possible
I did not know you could suspend monte carlo! Giving me some aquascape inspiration for a few of my tanks now
I usually put some otocinclus in my aquarium. That’s pretty much solves the algae problem. Also reduced the light used. If your doing 8hrs a day of light make it around 5 hrs per day.
That’s an absolutely stunningly beautiful tank! The aquascaping is just amazing!
Oddly enough I haven’t had any algae problems in a while, which is surprising because in the past I had a rampant algae problem.
I love your scape! Looks amazing!
Thanks Lizzy! You got a planted tank???
Not all plants tolerate algae treatments… many hardy, thicker leaved plants can but floating plants, tender leaved plants and mosses don’t usually do so well. Something that isn’t on the bottle and not many folks trying to sell this stuff will warn you about. Same is true for hydrogen peroxide.
Algaecides also run the risk of giving your fish Dropsy.
Beautiful tank! I have 1 bonsai tree that is almost 20 inches tall!
Brother. That is one magnificent looking tank. Congratulations.
Im worried, because a LOT of people have said (and showed pictures) that their fish die after adding this stuff.
Because most algaecide products get rid of it by blocking/removing oxygen from the water. Which can suffocate the fish too.
Something interesting is that glutaraldehyde (used in Flourish Excel, API CO2 Booster, and other liquid CO2 products) has been trialed as a fish poison by the United States Coast Guard and some fishkeepers have reported it giving their fish Dropsy.
@@mikefrost1312 That makes a lot of sense. I have decided to embrace the algae on the sides and back of the tank (not much left since I added in plants and algae eaters) and stayed away from chemicals.
@@FoolyLiving the algae will go away on its own anyways once your tank balances out !! I have algae in ALLL my tanks... But, it's just little spots here & there. Fish love to eat it if they can & it helps keep the water clean until you have complete balance. No real need to battle with it !!
No need for chemicals in your aquarium....
That tank looks gorgeous
How big is that beast Do you think?
That looks so good
Floating plants, reduce light exposure, add snails, and add shrimp, ghost shrimp are very good at being short term since they don't live very long or breed in freshwater, cherry shrimp or other similar nano shrimp are appealing long term solutions
How about increasing biodiversity to compete with the algae (ex. by adding various forms of media/substrates from the wild)?
Underrated comment right here. Nature has the answers and has been creating them for millennia. Replicate nature and you won’t need chemicals🤷🏻♂️
Interesting. Like adding rocks from a river? Would that be good enough or adding water from a natural source?
@@christophergonzalez5717 Those sources would technically work, however they do not contain much surface area/organic matter so I would assume they would not be as effective as, say, filling the bottom of your tank with smelly lake mud and rotting vegetation.
Gorgeous tank
Now that's a proper tank
Impressive tank.
Is algae treatment safe for shrimp and snails?
Also you might be feeding your fish too often and on top of that too many hours of light exposure can cause it.
Wow really nice aquascape
Were you get those trees from? Nice set up
That's just some drift wood with moss or some other plant attached to it to make it look like a tree
Mine was different,it started with brown algae,then the brown algae turned into green algae.
The trouble with using algaecide as I keep reading metal lot of people end up getting their fish killed I'm new at this but I've learned a lot that's already in a month and brown algae I've been told and read and heard will slowly go away as long as you do water changes can a couple of fish that like it brush the glass and ornaments and make sure you have good filtration and it usually will go away and then you'll end up dealing with the green algae I hear so I can't wait for that
Nerites snails and amono shrimp are good at helping with that algae
Where can I get one of those emersed plant holders you have hanging on your tank?
I have a Question!
I have a blueberry root that I planted in a well draining trash bag with 3 layers, pebbles on the bottom, and the other side of the bucket has a small pond that I decorated with Spanish moss.
Will this stuff work on this set up? Is it safe for plants and animals? I want to clear up the water a bit before I put snails in there.
OOOOOOOORRRRR you could just get some SAEs, snails, amanos, plant more in the first place, a combination of fast and slow growing plants, not overfeeding or fertilizing, overstocking, reduce light, blackout treatment etc. There is so much you can do without resorting to chemicals.
yeah but muh product
Thanks ❤
If you already have the alagae none of that does much to help. I find it's much easier to figure out what went wrong and nuke the tank. 9 times out of 10 my alage doesn't come back.
This is the right approach. This video is not it.
I highly advise not getting livestock just to fix algae. Snails seem to only make my algae worse as they produce so much waste.
Turning on a green light also helps
Lower lighting helps...
Yeah but is Alageside safe for Shrimp, and snails and other aquatic life.
What are those holders in the back holding your plants?
What are the plants you have growing on the tops of your ‘trees’?
Please someone tell me what type of plants those are. The tree looking ones.
Tankscape is very coolio.
Is it ok for shrimp?
Can you use this with fish in tank
Do we need to remove fish first?
Can It be used in salt water to
Have you tried copper?
Half dozen otto and one night that thing clean
Is it bad for snails or frogs?
Or decrease blue to blue green light exposure, add more plants to compete with the algae and consider using CO2 to encourage rapid growth.
But you know, where’s the sponsor in prevention?
What plants are those?
How often do you clean the tank.?! I’ve always wanted to do an aqua scape but own cichlids so they’d eat all the plants lol.. I wanna start with a 5g cube aqua scape..😳
3 day blackout
what about the plants?
Black out does nothing.
Good husbandry and patience will work well.
Plants never outcompete algae for nutrients. You can have a surplus of nutrients with little to no algae. Balance has to do with a mature periphyton biofilm growing on the plants, and mature microbial beds. As well as a low or sustainable organic fraction of TDS, which is dissolved organic carbon (DOC). Having appropriate light levels and a good clean-up crew with snails doesn't hurt. My plants grow slowly and I am relying on atmospheric CO2 at 3-4 ppm and I have very little algae. As well, his KH carbonate hardness could be too high, which can hinder plant growth, but that most likely isn't the case in this situation. He just has an immature setup with high DOC more than likely. You need to do more husbandry at the beginning of the setup because of the BOD (biochemical oxygen demand).
What about green hair algae ?? 😢
Bristlenose plecos will take care of all that in a week
What plants re they¿
At that the ada solar rgb?
What tank is this
Wow.
Algae is not a crime in freshwater..
All those “Anti algae” products are waste of money.. especially when it comes to hard algae like black beard and such …
The best thing to do is blackout method or 3ml of 3% hydrogen peroxide mixed with 2 liters of water and this would make the best “Anti algae “ formula for 1$
Seachem's Excell did get rid of my BBA but for some reason it does not get rid of brown algae
Hi, can you give me a more detailed steps please? I'm dealing with a brown algae
I've had great success with years expired API Algaefix. It killed my green hair algae and it seems to have killed my green spot algae too.
I agree that Chem is a joke and bad, the fight back and forth from adding Chem is horrible.
Black out does not remove algae, is simply slows the growth.
How ever you are correct in trying to go natural but if insist on Chem go with the treatment you mentioned.
I used to advocate for H2O2, but not anymore. It's not necessary and how would a 0.004% concentration even be effective? Does that work well?
Good husbandry methods and patience will fix any issues.
Plants never outcompete algae for nutrients. You can have a surplus of nutrients with little to no algae. Balance has to do with a mature periphyton biofilm growing on the plants, and mature microbial beds. As well as a low or sustainable organic fraction of TDS, which is dissolved organic carbon (DOC). Having appropriate light levels and a good clean-up crew with snails doesn't hurt. My plants grow slowly and I am relying on atmospheric CO2 at 3-4 ppm and I have very little algae. As well, his KH carbonate hardness could be too high, which can hinder plant growth, but that most likely isn't the case in this situation. He just has an immature setup with high DOC more than likely. You need to do more husbandry at the beginning of the setup because of the BOD (biochemical oxygen demand).
Is IT fish, snail And shrimp Safe?
does Seachem Excel help against this algae?
If you're having problems with algae a few more tips not included in this is 1. Reduce the amount of nutes you add for your plant's. Algae typically grows when there's excess nutes your plant's can't eat. 2. Reduce the amount of hours of light your tank gets per day.
What kind of plants are those??
I have a sudden algea outbreak, but I've got a lot of shrimp in my tank, so I'm not sure what to use since nothing seems to be shrimp safe.
Dont use this stuff the cons outweigh the pros. Get natural solutions such as snails or amanos, get more plants and dose fertilizer, cut lighting
I had to shut my tank down cuase I'm moved and I cant set up at the new places that clear water makes me jealous af lol my was like that I spent months on it added plants and new neons to the school. I miss my tank so much I just wunna move again so I can have it
Use uv filter
What is your water column temperature?
Like 74
Blackout days
I have brown algae in my newly established tank, but the tank has fish in it.. so I would be afraid to use this.
I left my light on for 5 days when i left for work
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My dad was mad about our tank being dirty with algae so he dumped some sort of scented oil in there and killed all our fish
I use peroxide for my algea 1ml/gal directly on the algea few days in a row and its normally gone! Sometime happens when you overstock to fast, or not enough plants
10/10 scape
Literally chemical’d ur tank when u could’ve been patient
All you need is less light, more plants and fish that eats algae.
Algaecide doesn't work in tanks with shrimp, snails, crypts, or buce.
I just bought Snail's instead😂😂
Can I leave my fish in while I'm using this solution?
Yes!
You have algae issues not because you used that algecide only now, but because you have way way way too little fast growing plants. You're just battling a nutrient surplus from your substrate or from adding too much fertilizer.
Good husbandry methods and patience will fix any issues.
Plants never outcompete algae for nutrients. You can have a surplus of nutrients with little to no algae. Balance has to do with a mature periphyton biofilm growing on the plants, and mature microbial beds. As well as a low or sustainable organic fraction of TDS, which is dissolved organic carbon (DOC). Having appropriate light levels and a good clean-up crew with snails doesn't hurt. My plants grow slowly and I am relying on atmospheric CO2 at 3-4 ppm and I have very little algae. As well, his KH carbonate hardness could be too high, which can hinder plant growth, but that most likely isn't the case in this situation. He just has an immature setup with high DOC more than likely. You need to do more husbandry at the beginning of the setup because of the BOD (biochemical oxygen demand).
Chemical solutions aren't ideal. Unless you're changing the conditions that created the algae bloom, then next time you introduce 1 or 2 cells of algae in your water changes, or if a few cells survive the chemical, then it'll just come back.
your tank is sick, chemicals are just a temporary patch, you need to fix the sickness first.
Don’t let algae TANK over 🥁
Might help to actually put fish in aquarium
My fish act like they'll go belly up any minute when I use algaecide, cherry barbs. If you don't know what unhappy looks like, I can video it for you.
I'll stick to CO2, even though that's a semi-permanent unhappiness for them. Once I turned it off for a week (ran out), you'd have thought they were different fish.
You wouldn't need chemicals if you put more plants in the tank to eat up the nitrates.
Im not sure of the algea im growing but i have some wood that was in my old tank. I boiled it, treated it with hydrogen peroxide, boiled it again than let it sun bake for a week. I put it in my new 125 gallon aquarium and right off the bat it grew a brown algea. None of the other wood has it, just that one. What would you recommend there? I had one guy tell me to get a syringe and shoot hydrogen peroxide right on the wood while still in the tank but im hesitant of that option. Its only been planted for about three weeks now.
@@yodaddy82daddy70 I'd remove it and soak it in hydrogen peroxide solution. Or leave it and let it clear on its own. It's probably because of to many nutrients, to much co2 and lights being on the Iong. Prevent the cause instead of cleaning the symptoms up.
its diatoms, lack of waterflow and co2 with excess light can causes it. instead of being lazy and give the tank some chemical in it, better be solving the roots problem.
10 Otto and a few amano îs a better solution than chemicals
Three Letters SAE !!!! (Siamese Algae Eater)
You only face the symptoms but you need to know why you have so much algaes.
Guys, honestly, reduce the light cycle by half, add more plants, and feed the fish every other day or less. For one week and you will see the results. 😊
I thought brown diatoms thrive in lower light. Wouldn’t you be working against your green plants when you want them to out compete the diatoms?
I think the problem was that I was overly exposing the tank with light at night, and since the tank is placed close to the window. It was getting plenty of sunlight, causing my tank to fog up green. Im still new to aquascaping, but as for im able to manage algaes by just cutting down light circulation. From 13 hours to 6 hours for one week and back to 13 hours, repeat. Sorry, I don't know the science behind why this works, but it does.