What are your nitrates? I managed to find the imbalances in my water and go rid of all my algea issues. I run a high light tank. You need one high growth plant like I use hornwort. It keeps everything zeroed nutrients and nitrates zero because it’s a fast growing plant. I leave mine looped a strand around the tank heater and it floats. Within 2 weeks. Algea growth stopped and retreated. I had green dust algea. You can have 100 plants but if theur all slow growers and I’m guessing so then it’s not gonna make enough difference. Adjust your light schedule I stick to 8 hours on a timer. Feed less. Add less plant nutrients. Once your tank is balanced it feels so dreamy.
Nitrates are as low as my chemicals will test for, but they aren’t terribly high precision. I have small tank, so that is probably a contributing factor. I might try hornwort :)
Algea can’t grow if there is no nutrients, and see the goal is to have the plants uptake all the nutrient content so there isn’t anything for a 3rd party to consume. Thus you need a plant that is high growth speed which one of the easiest and cheapest to manage and buy is hornwort. Followed by a timed light schedule and I bet your issue will line out. If there is nothing extra for algea to eat it can’t survive.
I need to get my pesky hair algae under control before I get one. I thought I got it cleared up, then it came roaring back :/
What are your nitrates? I managed to find the imbalances in my water and go rid of all my algea issues. I run a high light tank. You need one high growth plant like I use hornwort. It keeps everything zeroed nutrients and nitrates zero because it’s a fast growing plant. I leave mine looped a strand around the tank heater and it floats. Within 2 weeks. Algea growth stopped and retreated. I had green dust algea. You can have 100 plants but if theur all slow growers and I’m guessing so then it’s not gonna make enough difference. Adjust your light schedule I stick to 8 hours on a timer. Feed less. Add less plant nutrients. Once your tank is balanced it feels so dreamy.
Hornwort, eh? Maybe I’ll have to give it a shot.
Nitrates are as low as my chemicals will test for, but they aren’t terribly high precision. I have small tank, so that is probably a contributing factor. I might try hornwort :)
Algea can’t grow if there is no nutrients, and see the goal is to have the plants uptake all the nutrient content so there isn’t anything for a 3rd party to consume. Thus you need a plant that is high growth speed which one of the easiest and cheapest to manage and buy is hornwort. Followed by a timed light schedule and I bet your issue will line out. If there is nothing extra for algea to eat it can’t survive.