flourish excel/ algae treatment

[FishyMatty]

I remember reading someone mentioning something about using flourish excel to combat algae. Does anyone know what this method is and how to use it?

[TKOS]

It is usually a double dose of excel that will kill of algae. The reason being that the main ingredient of excel is a carbon source that is used as a sterilizing agent. In low doses it is fine. Algae will suck it up fastest in a tank, so if there is lots of it the algae will suck it up and kill itself. (Something like that). I would start with a normal dose first and then a double dose the next day. Watch the fish to see if there are any adverse effects.

[FishyMatty]

The bottle says for first dose use 1 cap full for 10g and then 1 cap full per 50g everyday. Does the double dose refer to the cap full per 10g or 50g? There is none in the water yet.

[FishyMatty]

Any body know how to treat algae using flourish excel? or any better Ideas. Yesterday I cut off most of the effected leaves and removed some manually. Today I got some algae eaters. Shrimp, SAE's, and otto cats. as well as a hillstream loach. and I put phosphate remover in my filter. What else can I do?

[TKOS]

I would just continue normal doses of excel for now, sicne you already manually removed most of the algae.

Did you actually have phosphates tested for in your tank?

[echoofformless]

In my time with excel and algae I have noticed that even when used in normal doses, existing algae is greatly diminished or sometimes even eradicated the next day.