Wah ha ha ha couldn't stop laughing when I read 'erect moss'. Tot cannot get erect moss in cold water ... sorry for that... now back to serious discussion... carry on...

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last time i saw in cty got whiptail catfish...Sturisoma aureum. good eater of brown algae but not for new tanks

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don't know what i was typing... er... brown algae are diatoms...

cruise, are they caused by excess silicates? from xp they only happen in low light areas...rarely get this now[maybe my cleaning crew are doing a good job...haha, dunno anymore]

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I guess you're right. Mine is low light now and few of my plants have these brown algae. I found that they tend to grow on older leaves (really?). I have a flying fox but thay guy only scrape those on the aquarium walls. very seldom scraping those on the leaves. Can see the mouth marks left on the walls and leaves.

I also use Tetra FloraPride. Is this fertilizer really encouraging brown algae growth? Is high light really kill/disallow them growing? If so, how many watt per litre show it be?

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when it is high light the green spot algae out competes them IMO.

flying fox is reeally more of a menace...if i get algae on plants i just throw away and let new leaves grow. then fix the issue of nutrient deficiency. normally is co2 related.

using fert from just one bottle of one brand is not enough/balanced. you need to read the basics of plant needs. NPK. you'll be reading a lot of this in planted tank aq. are you from pg? if you are i guess your choices are limited.

if your plants do well you never have to worry about algae. even if you do, just throw away infected leaves. simplest method of fighting algae.

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When my tank was well lighted and well injected with co2 (DIY), I found this dark-green hairy algae grew flourishingly on my bogwood. Some on the gravels (i used river gravel-manually scoop and cleaned) Few grew on the edge of leaves, rocks and even the powerhead. What I did was to manually remove them. But, they sticks damn hard . If they were on the leaves, those leaves have to go. They rip the leaves together.

Nowadays, when i stopped injecting the co2, they stop growing, or grow very less. I'm happy for that but sad for my plants.

Any idea (or over-the-counter remedy) to prevent them grow when i boost up my tank back like before?

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use a blade to scrape and have somebody vacuum as you scrape. better still remove the offending wood and scrape, boil...

the brown algae is a lighting intensity issue IMO and the green tufts is a rotting wood issue[a trigger IME]
for it to not grow on the wood will be difficult. normally i put some moss over it as a two in one solution.

other factors...co2, fertilizer have to be non limiting. lighting[1.5-2.5WPG] and temp-25-28c]

these green short hairy tufts? are actually quite nice looking IMO.
the black ones are a menace. actually i want to try to plant a nano with all BBA and have maculatas swimming inside...imagine...he he...

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I have some of those dark green hairy algae on the wood. THink they are dead (or cooked) when my water went to 30 degrees C. But they give a 'natural' look if you dont have too much of it.

yeah.. u're right. since now i have less/very less of this algea, they look 'quite' natural also. but those marks left on my powerhead after i pulled them out, ugly and dirty. a few on my driftwoods, quite natural too, after you mentioned it. hehe... but they are almost black color.

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This is what I have in my tank now. Looks like green candy floss. Bright green and slimey to the touch. It grows to about 1ft in length. It's about time, I suppose, since I've been introduced to every other algae known to man! Can anyone help me ID this?

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