Oh hello..... I like that your about the only one that actually tries to get algae to grow in your tanks whilst everyone else is practically wearing their nails down trying to scrape and kill it off, ha ha. It does look good though on the background and rocks. xx P
best tank ive ever seen had crystal clear water and huge thick hair algae all ove r the rocks and driftwood ....why people are obsessed with removing algse ill never know
Most don’t like algae but I like the way green algae looks I think it makes the tank look more natural plus I have a lot of algae eaters reg ancistrus,rio Paraguay ancistrus,German honeycomb ancistrus, emperor pleco, a few fat panda garras lol, tank raised otos, and a few types of snails. These are spread in a few tanks of course but I’m having a hard time keeping algae in my tanks and even though I do supplement with wafers, fluval pleco sticks and veggies I’d still like to have some natural algae for them to eat whenever they want. I’ve thought about putting some aquarium rocks in a bucket of tank water and sitting it in the sun do you think that would work to jump start some algae??? Thanks for the video
Hi Michael I'm not sure if that would work or not. Youd have to add some sort of food so the algae has nutrients. Youd probably also want a bubbler so the water doesn't get stagnant
I've noticed this in my 20 Gallon Planted tank. I use flourish as well. And it doesn't hurt my fish. Man that green algae sure looks good. You can also take a rock from you tank and sit it in he heat from the sun and put in your tank and turns green right away! 😅😅😅
What's up, man? Hope your finger is healing up nicely. Question, I noticed on the 225 that the algae is not growing at the top of your background. Is this due to your lights and the way they hit your background?
Thanks for this, ive been using this seachem florish for a while in my tank, but for the live plants I have in there, should I up the dose ? because I have a bristlenose pleco and 2 hill stream loaches that have cleaned up everything in the tank, I need to create some algae for them to eat.
Thanks for the Tip Adam C This is a Big goal of mine on the 540 gallon that Universal Rocks is building me right now. I want the whole Custom 10' x 3' Background covered in Brown and green algae..........................This should help kick start that off for me!
+Joel Behrens hi Joel, I just dose roughly what the bottle suggests which I believe is 1 capful per 60 gallons. I would error on the side of caution at first just to make sure your fish don't react to it. i started slow. I dose after my water change which is once per week
Nice tanks!! I've got the brown algae going in my 120, might have to try and put some easy green in and see if it well transform it to green. Just don't know if the diatom will change or if green will start to grow
+Jason Reynolds yes I meant the algae. you can either use a course sponge to wipe it off or simply do a water change, turn the lights off for a few days and don't feed for a few days and it will start to die off from lack of nutrients
This is great for my cichlids, I can only keep algae and plants in my HOB filter like bamboo to clean the tank, I tried hornwort with success for about a year then one day they all decided they liked it and it was gone within a week, so I’ll go for massive green algae 😅😅
We had green algae on all wall of our tank and all the faux plants, my wife comes home with 4 plecos about 1.5” and 4 albino Cory catfish. Okay they plecos cleared all the algae in less than 48 hours. Now I’m worry about the plecos not having enough food. Do you recommend you method?
I want to grow some algae for my mbuna cichlids they are always going at the rocks like they want to eat from them. Going to try your method to see if I can grow some algae on my rocks they would probably love that.
Will purigen and chemi pure stop the green algea from growing like it does with the brown algae...great video this was definitely on point and right on time i been trying to get green algae on my rocks for a while but always end up with brown algae.
I've been using Flourish for nearly a month now along with keeping my lights on longer and allowing daylight into my tank and still can't see to grow algae in the water. But it will grow on the lid of the tank no prob.
Hey Adam, i know its an older video. I was wondering if you know about growing Green Algae when Black Beard Algae is already present? I dont mind either, but with the scape i have BBA doesnt rly fit. But a Green algae would look amazing. I just dont want to add Flourish and then have even more BBA. Thanks for any advice :)
Hi Robert, sorry I dont have much experience with the black beard. I would imagine it might be best to try to wipe out the black beard first and start from scratch
I want algae to grow but i don't have Sun light, my light has some blue leds on them, how to start the algae growth before adding florish? Or can i add florish first and leave lights for 10hrs?
Most times those common led wont help much. If u really want plant growth without having any sunlight youd need to get one of the led lights designed for planted tanks
+3drhodes it went fine, I used less than what the bottle recommended and got some green growth started. I monitored my fish veru closely the first few times I used it to make sure it wasn't bothering them
When I was younger and dumber I was given a 30-40g hexagon tank and a few stunted baby koi (they were in a 20g before so still not ideal but better) by my stepdad. It would only take a couple days to grow a complete tank of green algae because of the bio-load. Is my tank too understocked to produce algae? I only seem to get cloudy water even in front of a window and dosing with fertilizer. Maybe just the window... Anyway I have a singular old tattered Zebra Danio (have some friends waiting for her quarantine) and a stunted 7" Dojo Loach both "adopted" lol
@@adamc7918 I guess I'll just have to keep buying and quarantining fish then.. Fine by me! 😁 I'll keep it in front of the window and keep dosing fert and see if anything happens in the next few months. Maybe add a big hunk of java moss or something else for it to cling to
This a old video but need answers. My fishtank is placed in a area where it does not recieve direct sunlight. Rather it recieves only daylight. Imagine a basement that has 1 small window that gives enough light at noon to light up everything. Does algae grow in this lighting? Im using flourish atm. Was wondering if i need to move tank
My back glass was completely caked-on bright green algae in my saltwater aquarium and is exactly what I want. After 4 months it's slowly dieing and all I'm getting is the dark green algae to grow. Any ideas why the die off?
+Adrian Calvo I've never used it but in reading the description on line it advertises that it can aid in plant health while limiting algae. so I guess if u want algae this may not be the best
+Tony Star my bottle doesn't say either but in reading the description it sounds like the standard excel. just start slow with whatever u use so your fish can adjust and you can monitor them and make sure the tank gets some light
Good concept... you need a light with lots of reds and blues focused on the area you want to grow. Then super dose flourish in the tank. I use plastic canvis with a $12 home depot grow light build that has a lot of reds in combination with an 6” airstone under the mesh that I attached suction cups to to stick it to the side of the tank. I then position the light housed in a reptile reflector heat lamp fixture on the side of the tank. It’s basically a diy algae scrubber but wo the housing to conceal it. The light shines through the canvis into the rest of the tank but I only get growth on the canvis cause of my circulation flow and the help of some large pleco. I do this in my mbuna tank and it doubles as food for the fish. I have to rarely feed them now and my water needs a lot less changing then before. So many view algae as a bad thing.. it’s a very good thing you just need to control where and how it grows.
Adam C homedepot sells grow light bulbs with regular ones. The company that makes it is fiet of something like that. It’s mostly red which is what you want for algae growth. It’s in a black box and they make regular par19, par29 (standard flush ceiling light size which will still fit most fixtures), and par32 ones that are flood light size. I use both the par19 and 29 and the 29 is a perfect fit in a standard dome reflector and fils almost the entire thing. It will make your tank look horrible though so I recommend looking at a diy algae scrubber video and putting this canvis inside a housing so light isn’t shining everywhere but in 2 weeks you’ll have a solid mat all the way across the canvas a good 1/2” thick. This is the amount you want. In another two weeks (1 month total) you’ll be 1-2” long. At this point you’ll need to start trimming it back.if it grows too long it will die at the root and fall off the canvis floating around the tank making a mess. A 12”x8” canvis 1/2” thick will actually fully cycle most tanks and you won’t even need filtration other then mechanical sponge lol. Nature works way better then any biomedia.
Hello! I have dark green carpet algae and some brownish. It take over and I'm worried. When you have algae doesn't it mean you have many nitrates? I'm afraid if that hurts the fish (I have 2 goldfish in 300 litres aquarium, 2 filters - one outside, one sponge filter. I do water changes regularly)
Pressurized CO2 can diminish O2 levels, but excel is *not* "basically liquid co2" even though that's often repeated. It's some proprietary polymer of gluteraldehyde which breaks down into a carbon source that is NOT dissolved CO2, but is still usable by plants. Plants, especially aquatic adapted plants, can actually get carbon from multiple sources--Co2, bicarbonate, and whatever excel is as well is a carbon source.
I didn't know people wanted to grow green algae lol. My rocks are much lager than these and they are completely covered in green algae. It's like a carpet of algae growing on them . I don't mind it on my rocks but I hate it on my glass . Why do you want the green algae on your background? My tank is in front of a window I don't have to do anything the stuff just keeps growing everywhere. I wish I could give you all my green algae, my background is covered .
I wish I could answer for you but I've never used the excel and I dont want to steer you the wrong way. I'm guessing you could no problem but I dont have any experience with it
Haha, you're so right. You shake the stuff up before using it. Well I didnt know until it was too late but the bottle had a super tiny crack just under the cap area. First time I shook the bottle to use it looked like a murder scene. I had reddish brown liquid everywhere including all over my face and hair. I bet a good teaspoon somehow got into my mouth
Adam C you have very nice fish and green algae in one of the tanks but unfortunately , looks like you have no idea why this happened. It was certainly not just the seahem you add to the water that caused this, but the water conditions you have in the aquarium water. Apparently, you created such conditions in your aquarium quite accidentally. The most important are: nitrogen to phosphorus (Redfield) ratio, amount of silicates, quality and amount of lighting. These are the most important things. For years I have been looking for answers to how a given type of algae arises in an aquarium. Now I can grow any algae myself, I wanted to share this knowledge on TH-cam, but people were not interested. , :)
I once saw a tropical fish tank with heavy algae growth and crystal clear water and it was one of the msot beautiful tanks I had ever seen.
They are amazing like that
Lol msot
Usually, i don't interesting in channels which have videos "How to get rid of algae". 😆😃😂
Good information for those of us who have plecostomus in our tanks.
+Robert Reese very true, my pleco seems to enjoy it
@@adamc7918 and also blue legged hermit crab
Yes very they need algea I got one and an otocinclis I need something other than the algea wafers for em
My pleco loves algae
Finally a video to How to grow green algae in your aquarium!!!
Thanks for watching carlos
Your aquarium is so freaking clear, its amazing!!
+Fruity Kitchen thank you fruity I really appreciate that. I take pride in this aquarium
It brings a wild element to the tank I like it ✅✅💯💯
+Evan Coleman thanks Evan
Oh hello..... I like that your about the only one that actually tries to get algae to grow in your tanks whilst everyone else is practically wearing their nails down trying to scrape and kill it off, ha ha. It does look good though on the background and rocks. xx P
+Patricia Christie haha I go through phases. I like having it for a while then sometimes I like a clean look
A bit like having a beard then, ha ha. I'm glad your still posting . Thanks xx P
+Patricia Christie haha
I completely agree with you on That!
Patricia Christie I actually also love algae and have some growing in my rocks in my tank
best tank ive ever seen had crystal clear water and huge thick hair algae all ove r the rocks and driftwood ....why people are obsessed with removing algse ill never know
Thank you veryuch John
Yes! This is exactly the information that I wanted. Thanks! Also, your tanks and fish look great!
Thank you very much
Thank you now i know how to grow algae so i can feed my rabbit snail
Thanks for watching
Most don’t like algae but I like the way green algae looks I think it makes the tank look more natural plus I have a lot of algae eaters reg ancistrus,rio Paraguay ancistrus,German honeycomb ancistrus, emperor pleco, a few fat panda garras lol, tank raised otos, and a few types of snails. These are spread in a few tanks of course but I’m having a hard time keeping algae in my tanks and even though I do supplement with wafers, fluval pleco sticks and veggies I’d still like to have some natural algae for them to eat whenever they want. I’ve thought about putting some aquarium rocks in a bucket of tank water and sitting it in the sun do you think that would work to jump start some algae??? Thanks for the video
Hi Michael I'm not sure if that would work or not. Youd have to add some sort of food so the algae has nutrients. Youd probably also want a bubbler so the water doesn't get stagnant
@@adamc7918am I correct in my thought that green algae grows better in high oxygen saturation?
I love the look of algae in my forest scapes. Thanks for the tip
Thanks for watching
I've noticed this in my 20 Gallon Planted tank. I use flourish as well. And it doesn't hurt my fish. Man that green algae sure looks good. You can also take a rock from you tank and sit it in he heat from the sun and put in your tank and turns green right away! 😅😅😅
+Deon 0026 yep good point
I just happen to have some laying around. I will try this.
What's up, man? Hope your finger is healing up nicely. Question, I noticed on the 225 that the algae is not growing at the top of your background. Is this due to your lights and the way they hit your background?
+Cali Cichlid Man yes my light is a little toward the front so it doesn't hit the top 20 percent of the background
Never have tried flourish, I really like the green on the rock
+Corey Hecker thanks, I like the change in appearance. something new
Thanks for this, ive been using this seachem florish for a while in my tank, but for the live plants I have in there, should I up the dose ? because I have a bristlenose pleco and 2 hill stream loaches that have cleaned up everything in the tank, I need to create some algae for them to eat.
Add some natural light if you can
I love this look. Especially in a mbuna tank. It's looking great in yours too...
+The Indian Fishkeeper thank you, I'm sure mbuna would love grazing on it
Thanks for the Tip Adam C
This is a Big goal of mine on the 540 gallon that Universal Rocks is building me right now. I want the whole Custom 10' x 3' Background covered in Brown and green algae..........................This should help kick start that off for me!
+Gina Corno should be awesome gina good luck
yay! I just got some nerite snails and I was afraid they would run out of algae. Thankyou for making this video!
Thank you for watching Arie
Thanks for the video Adam. Couple questions: how much do you dose and how often? Thanks again man for your insight.
+Joel Behrens hi Joel, I just dose roughly what the bottle suggests which I believe is 1 capful per 60 gallons. I would error on the side of caution at first just to make sure your fish don't react to it. i started slow. I dose after my water change which is once per week
appreciate it
Cool . Looks more natural.
+Frank Dominguez thanks Frank
Nice tanks!! I've got the brown algae going in my 120, might have to try and put some easy green in and see if it well transform it to green. Just don't know if the diatom will change or if green will start to grow
+Rob Jones I've heard good things about that product
this is really useful for blue legged hermit crabs and more little cuties 💖 thanks for this video
Thank you for watching
Does the seachem flourish promote algae if you have plants?
I couldn't tell your for a certainty
You said it was easily removable. Were you talking about the algae? If so what do you use to remove, or were you referring to the back drop?
+Jason Reynolds yes I meant the algae. you can either use a course sponge to wipe it off or simply do a water change, turn the lights off for a few days and don't feed for a few days and it will start to die off from lack of nutrients
This is great for my cichlids, I can only keep algae and plants in my HOB filter like bamboo to clean the tank, I tried hornwort with success for about a year then one day they all decided they liked it and it was gone within a week, so I’ll go for massive green algae 😅😅
We had green algae on all wall of our tank and all the faux plants, my wife comes home with 4 plecos about 1.5” and 4 albino Cory catfish. Okay they plecos cleared all the algae in less than 48 hours. Now I’m worry about the plecos not having enough food. Do you recommend you method?
They would eat it before it even had a chance to regrow. You'll probably just have to add some sinking pleco food in at night
I want to grow some algae for my mbuna cichlids they are always going at the rocks like they want to eat from them. Going to try your method to see if I can grow some algae on my rocks they would probably love that.
Sorry I just saw your comment roxana
Will purigen and chemi pure stop the green algea from growing like it does with the brown algae...great video this was definitely on point and right on time i been trying to get green algae on my rocks for a while but always end up with brown algae.
I use chemi pure blue in my tanks and the green algae still formed
Bro where did you get Rock background?
Universalrocks.com
Thank you very much 🙏
You can take one of the rocks from the tank that's going good and put it in the other tank to stimulate the growth of more algae
+Romo Sapien good point Romo
I've been using Flourish for nearly a month now along with keeping my lights on longer and allowing daylight into my tank and still can't see to grow algae in the water. But it will grow on the lid of the tank no prob.
Hopefully it starts on the surfaces soon
And some people who don't want algae
Hey Adam, i know its an older video. I was wondering if you know about growing Green Algae when Black Beard Algae is already present? I dont mind either, but with the scape i have BBA doesnt rly fit. But a Green algae would look amazing. I just dont want to add Flourish and then have even more BBA. Thanks for any advice :)
Hi Robert, sorry I dont have much experience with the black beard. I would imagine it might be best to try to wipe out the black beard first and start from scratch
Spot treating with seachem excel helped me annihilate bba from my 29gal.
I want algae to grow but i don't have Sun light, my light has some blue leds on them, how to start the algae growth before adding florish? Or can i add florish first and leave lights for 10hrs?
Most times those common led wont help much. If u really want plant growth without having any sunlight youd need to get one of the led lights designed for planted tanks
Adam C do you use a full spectrum light? What lights do you prefer to buy for your tanks? :)
Now I am using kessil lights which I love
The more natural looking the better. Hope you get the results your looking for.
+Thomas Medina thank you Thomas
My Tropheus love green algae! What lights and spectrum are your lights? How long do you run them a day?
hi John, these are 72inch beamswork 65k I believe . I only have them on maybe 2 hours a day but I do get natural sunlight
What type of backdrop do you use on your tanks? Id really love that for my thank
It's a thin background from universalrocks.com
@@adamc7918 thank you!
Would you still recommend the flourish. I just bought a bottle and was wondering how it went with you
+3drhodes it went fine, I used less than what the bottle recommended and got some green growth started. I monitored my fish veru closely the first few times I used it to make sure it wasn't bothering them
Adam C thanks for all your help
+3drhodes of course
I’m trying to grow algae in my tank as I have snails and I don’t want them to die I keep leaving the light on
is the green algae on the rocks at the bottom of the tank bad or good?
Just depends what your goal is
When I was younger and dumber I was given a 30-40g hexagon tank and a few stunted baby koi (they were in a 20g before so still not ideal but better) by my stepdad. It would only take a couple days to grow a complete tank of green algae because of the bio-load.
Is my tank too understocked to produce algae? I only seem to get cloudy water even in front of a window and dosing with fertilizer. Maybe just the window... Anyway I have a singular old tattered Zebra Danio (have some friends waiting for her quarantine) and a stunted 7" Dojo Loach both "adopted" lol
It might be too small of a bio load, but I'm not certain. Strange it won't grow even in sunlight
@@adamc7918 I guess I'll just have to keep buying and quarantining fish then.. Fine by me! 😁 I'll keep it in front of the window and keep dosing fert and see if anything happens in the next few months. Maybe add a big hunk of java moss or something else for it to cling to
This a old video but need answers. My fishtank is placed in a area where it does not recieve direct sunlight. Rather it recieves only daylight. Imagine a basement that has 1 small window that gives enough light at noon to light up everything. Does algae grow in this lighting? Im using flourish atm. Was wondering if i need to move tank
If you want green algae to grow well it would probably need a bit more sun (nothing crazy) or a light meant for growing plants
I had a hanging light that I pout an led light on, it works pretty well
Thanks for the comment
Thanks! Now I can create #TeamAlgae!
Thanks for watching
Adam C no prob
I still don't know why people want to get rid of algae so much :D
My plecos are ready to fight for the mass of algae i let to grow in my tank XD
I love it, I'm with you
I researched is algae good or bad and I am getting mixed answers. Please help. What the of algae is good for the fish tank.
Mainly green algae is the only one that can provide a benefit, gives fish something to graze
@@adamc7918 ahh OK, but how do u grow green algae because I don't want to accidently grow a bad type of algae
My back glass was completely caked-on bright green algae in my saltwater aquarium and is exactly what I want.
After 4 months it's slowly dieing and all I'm getting is the dark green algae to grow.
Any ideas why the die off?
Did u possibly start feeding less? Doing more water changes? Less sun?
Do you do the tank gal dosage or just a cap full a day ? Something like that
+Philthy Phill hi Phill I do the dosing instructions once a week after water changes
the water on your fish tank is so clear what kind of filter do you use
Thank you. I use canister filters and I like to add chemical filtration products like chemi pure blue for that added clarity
What kind of light you are using , how many hours a day?
That tank was a beamswork 72 inch, I left on 5 to 6 hours a day
Hey adam!! Hope everything is well!! I was wondering where did u get that background?
Hu jovanni I got it from universalrocks.com
Adds a nice touch for sure
+inventoryking thanks man
Hi Adam,
What do you think about using Flourish Phosphorus?
+Adrian Calvo I've never used it but in reading the description on line it advertises that it can aid in plant health while limiting algae. so I guess if u want algae this may not be the best
Adam C thanks for your answer. Regards!
Is it flourish excel or trace? I looked it up and can't seem to decide lol
+Tony Star my bottle doesn't say either but in reading the description it sounds like the standard excel. just start slow with whatever u use so your fish can adjust and you can monitor them and make sure the tank gets some light
How often do you put it in the tank
I did every water change, usually once a week
Good concept... you need a light with lots of reds and blues focused on the area you want to grow. Then super dose flourish in the tank. I use plastic canvis with a $12 home depot grow light build that has a lot of reds in combination with an 6” airstone under the mesh that I attached suction cups to to stick it to the side of the tank. I then position the light housed in a reptile reflector heat lamp fixture on the side of the tank. It’s basically a diy algae scrubber but wo the housing to conceal it. The light shines through the canvis into the rest of the tank but I only get growth on the canvis cause of my circulation flow and the help of some large pleco. I do this in my mbuna tank and it doubles as food for the fish. I have to rarely feed them now and my water needs a lot less changing then before. So many view algae as a bad thing.. it’s a very good thing you just need to control where and how it grows.
thanks for the tip
Adam C homedepot sells grow light bulbs with regular ones. The company that makes it is fiet of something like that. It’s mostly red which is what you want for algae growth. It’s in a black box and they make regular par19, par29 (standard flush ceiling light size which will still fit most fixtures), and par32 ones that are flood light size. I use both the par19 and 29 and the 29 is a perfect fit in a standard dome reflector and fils almost the entire thing. It will make your tank look horrible though so I recommend looking at a diy algae scrubber video and putting this canvis inside a housing so light isn’t shining everywhere but in 2 weeks you’ll have a solid mat all the way across the canvas a good 1/2” thick. This is the amount you want. In another two weeks (1 month total) you’ll be 1-2” long. At this point you’ll need to start trimming it back.if it grows too long it will die at the root and fall off the canvis floating around the tank making a mess. A 12”x8” canvis 1/2” thick will actually fully cycle most tanks and you won’t even need filtration other then mechanical sponge lol. Nature works way better then any biomedia.
Im trying to grow algae but brown algae is growing instead of green. What can i do?
That can be pretty common. It's sort of a balance of enough light but not too much food because the brown algae will eat that up
I’ve never had a algae problem. Sometimes wish I had some loo
I have a baby spotted raphael catfish, can i grow these for them to eat?
Hi Paul sorry I dont know a ton about the Raphael
I think algae is growing on the glass of my fish but idk if it’s helpful for my fish and snails
Idk if to remove it or not please help
If it is green algae it's just your preference, it doesnt harm the fish and some like to graze on it
Thank you I needed this to grow food for my goby
Best of luck
Hello!
I have dark green carpet algae and some brownish. It take over and I'm worried.
When you have algae doesn't it mean you have many nitrates? I'm afraid if that hurts the fish
(I have 2 goldfish in 300 litres aquarium, 2 filters - one outside, one sponge filter. I do water changes regularly)
That could be a factor. Possibly lighting. Brown algae grows well when there are too many nutrients in the water
@@adamc7918 Thanks!
What type of lights do you have and how long do you leave them on
These are beamswork led lights. I leave them on maybe 2 hours per day. The rest of the time the blinds are partially open so they get natural light
What is the back ground material? We like the rock look. thanks
+herbert braun hi herbert. I had it made by a company called universal rocks. universalrocks.com. it is a molded rubber sort of
i need this so that my fry can survive
It helps
I was told by my LFS that seachem flourish is basically liquid CO2. Doesn’t CO2 diminish O2 content in the system?
+smallGAME_cichlids808 I've never noticed any problems but I don't have proof either way
Pressurized CO2 can diminish O2 levels, but excel is *not* "basically liquid co2" even though that's often repeated. It's some proprietary polymer of gluteraldehyde which breaks down into a carbon source that is NOT dissolved CO2, but is still usable by plants. Plants, especially aquatic adapted plants, can actually get carbon from multiple sources--Co2, bicarbonate, and whatever excel is as well is a carbon source.
Flourish is a great idea because it's hard to grow algae and at the same time maintain good water quality...
+The Fishy Life ! that is true
What are the benefits of actually having the green algae?
+Harrison Yeung I'm only doing it for the looks, but my pleco likes eating some of it. if you have mbuna they eat it also.
Harrison Yeung
As with anything photosynthetic, it consumes nitrates.
What light do you use?
It's a kessil led
@@adamc7918 do you think a Fluval aquasky at max power 12hrs a day would be enough light to grow algae in a 75gal?
I need it! Mbuna's would love it!!
+Willie Fistergash they would for sure
What lights do you use?
Now I use the tuna sun led made by kessil
I didn't know people wanted to grow green algae lol. My rocks are much lager than these and they are completely covered in green algae. It's like a carpet of algae growing on them . I don't mind it on my rocks but I hate it on my glass . Why do you want the green algae on your background? My tank is in front of a window I don't have to do anything the stuff just keeps growing everywhere. I wish I could give you all my green algae, my background is covered .
Could you do a part 2 video to show the progress and if you still usr Flourish
I changed it up not long ago. It did well. A nice thin layer of green
I want to grow algae for my future shrimp
They'd like that
i just like the moss rocks
I need some algae for my shrimp breeding project. I haven’t been able to get ANY even leaving the lights on 10 hours a day
It can be tough
does the algae affect the fish at all
Joe the Right Triangle no not directly.
+Joe the Right Triangle no joe they don't act any different
I'd like to grow black beard algae, but not sure how to get it/start it.
+Sys0p I wish I could help you. I'm not very knowledgeable on it
I'm just happy someone else appreciates algae when done right.
+Sys0p I appreciate how it can take a manmade tank and turn it into almost a snapshot of a nature scene
How do you apply it to your rocks etc etc
You just add it to the water
I need to grow algae to feed my pleco lol.
Can you use flourish excel
I wish I could answer for you but I've never used the excel and I dont want to steer you the wrong way. I'm guessing you could no problem but I dont have any experience with it
Adam C thx guess ill try it and see if it does
Can I grow algae for my shrimps to graze on?
You can certainly try. Many people do that
Algae loves high Nitrates right??
+Willie Fistergash algae loves light and excess nutrients in the water
what is the name of all the yellow fish in the first tank ???
They are buccochromis rhoadesii yellow
Does this work with saltwater tanks too?
I'm not sure
I like algea becauss its Necessary for my Guppies and Janitor fish
Thanks for watching
I like it cause I have an emerald crab
Thanks for watching John
What type of background is this??
It is a 3d background from universalrocks.com
Does guppies eat algae
I dont know to be honest
How to grow green algae: get a turtle. Those suckers are algae magnets.
+Tukkinum Num haha so I've heard
Just trying to grow a little algae for my otocinclus
From the looks of that bottle, you have been just throwing flourish all over the place lol
Haha, you're so right. You shake the stuff up before using it. Well I didnt know until it was too late but the bottle had a super tiny crack just under the cap area. First time I shook the bottle to use it looked like a murder scene. I had reddish brown liquid everywhere including all over my face and hair. I bet a good teaspoon somehow got into my mouth
@@adamc7918 lol...i wish the camera had been rolling 🤣😂great story
Lol man. It wasnt my proudest moment
@@adamc7918 seachem flourish beneficial for plants but disastrous 4 shrimp
Good tip
I have that but stopped using it, guess I'll be using it again. Lol
Give it a try you may like the results
How long algae grow in ur stoned ?
probably around a month or 2
do i want algae? heck yea i do!!
can i grow it? idk how but i CANT XD
I like algea because it makes it look more natural if you use real rock and plant material.
It also keeps my sucker fish fed
Steve in shield
great video
+vince abbley thanks Vince
Where's all the plants? Must be boring for the fish to be in an empty tank..
Thanks for watching. They don't live in planted environments in nature
In my planted tanks I want to get rid of algae, in my Malawi tanks I can't even grow algae, lol
+ItsNotButterOMG haha always seems to work that way
Adam C you have very nice fish and green algae in one of the tanks but unfortunately , looks like you have no idea why this happened. It was certainly not just the seahem you add to the water that caused this, but the water conditions you have in the aquarium water. Apparently, you created such conditions in your aquarium quite accidentally. The most important are: nitrogen to phosphorus (Redfield) ratio, amount of silicates, quality and amount of lighting. These are the most important things. For years I have been looking for answers to how a given type of algae arises in an aquarium. Now I can grow any algae myself, I wanted to share this knowledge on TH-cam, but people were not interested. , :)
Thanks for watching