Hair Algae AGAIN??

Pudge said:
The fish in my signature are what's in my tank, nothing really big enough to "eat" them.. just to nibble;

4 Platy (2 in seperate tank for now)
4 Phantom Tetra
6 Cardinal Tetra
6 Leopard Danio
1 SAE
1 Random Snail (1/4 the size of a dime)

I was also looking to possibly breed them in a 1/3rd of my 10 G tank, then once they are hatched, move the parents back to the 29G, and then repeat as necessary :)
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The problem is that they will malt at some point. Do you have much plants in that tank? I wonder if anyone had luck keeping shrimps with platies on this forum. I had ghost shrimps disappear on me in a tank that had both platies and german blue rams before.

Yeah, I have setup a 10g to breed them too. :)
 
I have some plantlife in my tank, corkscrew vals x4, Juncus Repens x3 (shaved off tips to make 3 more :)) and one smaller piece of lava rock.. I think they should be alright.
 
One interesting thing I noticed about hair algae now. I've been keeping the tank dark when the light isn't on by covering the top and the front glass. I've also split 8 hours of light into 2 x 4 hours (one in the morning and one during the evening/night). I'm not sure what did it but I no longer have out of control hair algae growth! Even with 2.5wpg. I have a feeling that indirect sunlight during the day must have contributed to the algae growth. The room is far from bright but the fact that algae was growing faster near the front glass and now much slower growth leads me to believe that algae can utilize even not-so-bright indirect sunlight.

Too early to conclude but it looks promising. What s*cks though is that I have to cover the tank when I am not around. Not a big deal but not ideal either... :D
 
yhbae said:
One interesting thing I noticed about hair algae now. I've been keeping the tank dark when the light isn't on by covering the top and the front glass. I've also split 8 hours of light into 2 x 4 hours (one in the morning and one during the evening/night). I'm not sure what did it but I no longer have out of control hair algae growth! Even with 2.5wpg. I have a feeling that indirect sunlight during the day must have contributed to the algae growth. The room is far from bright but the fact that algae was growing faster near the front glass and now much slower growth leads me to believe that algae can utilize even not-so-bright indirect sunlight.

Too early to conclude but it looks promising. What s*cks though is that I have to cover the tank when I am not around. Not a big deal but not ideal either... :D
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I make sure that if I have my window open (not that near to my tank, probably about 20-25ft) I turn off my tank lights, I think I may try splitting the sunlight hours maybe 4 on, 2 off 4 on again, and see what that does also.
 
Alright, so after today, I went back to my aquarium and it was still getting much worse the hair algae on the gravel was getting to be nearly an inch in places, and my 1 of my juncus repens plant was overly covered.. For now I have taken off my 2x65w CF light (I'm not very happy with doing so because it cost me $250...) and replaced it with my 2x13w 6500 Daylight DIY light. I hope that this will kill off the hair algae until my Pressurized CO2 gets here, then I'll put back my CF bulbs..

*edit* Also, yhbae, my LFS doesn't have RCS anymore :( they have ordered some though for me, and they will hopefully be in by next Tues!
 
Dangit! I couldn't do it, after making the change my tank just looked like crap, with poorer lighting in my planted tank, I didn't even really want to look at it.. I put my other light back on running at half capacity, and I'm going to be taking all my preventative measures.

*edit* so back to the 4 on, 2 off, 4 on lighting, dosing excel after it is mixed in nicely with the water as to not do as much harm to the vals, heavier water changes (did a 40% today) and get my shrimp!
 
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They told me 1-2 weeks, today is the 1 week mark, I'm hoping it will be here by latest Friday, I can't wait for it!
 
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