What is this stuff?

[DarkSoul]

Well the brown stuff I have been told are diatoms, but I figured I would include a picture in case anyone had a second opinion, this stuff is mostly on my water temple.
some of the brown spots are the plant itself, I would presume from being consumed by algae?

There is also some quite long hairy stuff growing on my plants, and has taken quite a hold of my sword mostly.

there are also some little brown hairs growing on my moneywort....

what is this stuff?????????

[daayda3]

I have that growing on the back wall of my tank... it doesnt look really bad though... dont know about what its called though

[loaches r cool]

Hmm have you read the description for Staghorn? That light colored stuff kind of looks like it, but just a guess.

[fishorama]

That or the beginnings of hair algae.

[DarkSoul]

the beginings??????????????

it already looks hairy.....

[pcnicholson]

Hard to tell from the picture but I think it may be hair algae. If it comes off easy that's what it is. If it doesn't then I would say staghorn and I have yet to find a solution for that short of trimming off the effected leaves. But plantbrain might have a better idea since I a fairly new at this.

[DarkSoul]

it doesnt wipe off, I literally have to pull the hairs off, and it seems a little darker in colour too.

its like the hairs have rooted onto the plants themselves.

[DarkSoul]

I found a good article about staghorn, and I would think that it is indeed what I have. http://www.aquariumalgae.blogspot.com/

But there are some indescrepancies, the stuff growing on my moneywort, I believe 100% is staghorn.
The longer strands on my sword, might be staghorn, or it could be lots of thread algae... I would say it more closely matches the staghorn.

I guess I will be pruning some leaves today.

[cichlidkeeper91]

A really good way to get rid of staghorn is overdose it with flourish excel. It starts to turn red and then it is totally dead. I would recommend doing that.

[DarkSoul]

Ive been dosing excel since wed, and thurs. and will do some today, continuing with every other day dosing... but this stuff is turning red, and appears to be dying off, and/or falling off the plants.

im happy... Ill see how it goes :)

still got the freakin brown rusty stuff though.

[DarkSoul]

hmmm.... so today, I take a look, and now it seems as if the hairy stuff is turning back to its original colour.

perhaps now im lacking other nutrients for thep lants to consume, and the algae is beating the plants to it again.

[Quartermain]

I have witnessed beard algae turn bright apple red shortly after bleaching. The red didn't completely die. So there seems to be a fine line between merely stressed algae and dead algae. The chemical exposer either wasn't long enough or strong enough. Dead algae will quickly turn white and it will be obvious that it will not be returning.

[DarkSoul]

turn white? the stuff was already white to begin with, it turned red, and now is going back to white again .... I think

this stuff is a pain thats for sure.

[Quartermain]

Sorry I kind of jumped to the end of the thread. White algae. That's a little strange.

[Joergen.Schoppe]

Hi
had the same in my tank. bought all kind of algae eating species, but the long fibred algae did not disappear.
then read about fertilizing my tank. i experimented with different doses and kinds of. today my tank is free from this kind of algae. my plants grow like weed... try it.

[Asthrou]

Joergen, so in the end what did resolve the algae issue?

[DarkSoul]

it has now gone from all red, to all white again.

along with melafix and pimafix for the fish/tank, I added some excel, as i have been, every other day, and some bigals plant food... I will see what happens in the next couple of days with the plants and algae.