algae

Hi to all! I clean only my front glass weekly. I just let algae (GSA and a bit of GDA) and biofilm grow on the other sides. I am a bit lazy and moreover I wanted to leave some free food for snails and now for my Otos. They were so skinny when I bought them, now they are pretty fat, they look...

I got cladophora algae in my aquarium. I’d like to know some things to do to get rid of it. I read on the 2hr aquarist that it grows in dead spots with decaying overcrowded stems and high light. Other than uprooting the stem plants and replanting the healthy stems, and adding more water flow...

Chapter 1: Assessing the true status of plants/animals is not as easy as it first appears 1) First premise: The overall condition of an organism can be assessed by its external form or by its internal contents. --- with the content being [with few exceptions] more important than the form...

We've all been there. Tell us about your worst algae war story and how you finally beat it. I'll start with mine. My last tank. About 3-4 weeks after start began to show cyanobacteria on the substrate. Within two days, it exploded and my plants were covered. I think my fish were swimming around...