pretty much what the title says. i have a staghorn algae outbreak in my lowteck planted invert/white cloud tank. there's a bunch of snails and a couple bamboo shrimp. I'd like to dose excel onto some of these leaves and see if it helps but I'm concerned about the inverts. anyone advice?
because to directly treat algae I've heard to double the recomended dose. so I'm thinking i'll use a syringe and only dose a couple leaves a day, so that they can get a hardcore dose, but it's not enough to push the total volume in the tank above the recomended dosage.
I use alcohol to treat my algae problems. I drink a little and then I no longer care I have algae. Perfectly safe for my inverts too... as long as I don't put alcohol in the tank.
I've got a five gallon tank that had horrible problems with hair/beard algae. I started dosing with excel flourish and it's all going away nicely. For weeks now I've just put a few drops in each day. The snails are breeding like crazy and all seems quite well with the tank.
I did have one amano shrimp, but he crawled out and died. That, however, is not uncommon with amano shrimp.
I'm fighting a staghorn battle myself of late on my high-tech 29g. I've jacked up my pressurized CO2 and I'm double-dosing flourish excel (6ml per day) so far to little effect.
I have a fair amount of pond snails and some grass shrimp in there. So far, only one of my grass shrimp has shown signs of stress due to the excel; all the larger females appear to be fine. The snails, of course, are just dandy.
My next tactic will be to start dosing NPK regularly since I think the outbreak started due to not enough nitrate production on the part of the fish (I lost a molly and a platy recently and moved an oto out). My nitrates are a solid zero which is likely stalling my plant growth allowing the algae to run wild. At least, that's my theory...
