How to Balance Light and Nutrients to Stop Algae Before It Starts
# How to Balance Light and Nutrients to Stop Algae Before It Starts The worst part about algae outbreaks isn’t scrubbing green slime off your glass every week. It’s watching…
Hydrogen Peroxide and Aquarium Plants and Whether Spot Treatment Is Safe
# Hydrogen Peroxide and Aquarium Plants: Whether Spot Treatment Is Safe If you’ve noticed black beard algae spreading across your carefully maintained plants or bacterial bloom clouding your water, hydrogen…
String Algae in a Planted Aquarium and Manual Removal vs Chemical Treatment
# String Algae in a Planted Aquarium: Manual Removal vs Chemical Treatment You’ve probably seen it growing on your plants like green dental floss, stretching between your hardscape, or forming…
How to Get Algae Off of Aquarium Plants When Scrubbing Doesn’t Work
# How to Get Algae Off of Aquarium Plants When Scrubbing Doesn’t Work I’ll admit it straight up: I lost a perfectly good Anubias nana to algae in my first…
Algae Eating Fish and Shrimp for Planted Aquariums and Which Ones Actually Help
# Algae Eating Fish and Shrimp for Planted Aquariums and Which Ones Actually Help Walking into an aquatics shop with a green tank and asking for help, you’ll get pointed…
Black Spots on Aquarium Plants and How to Identify Black Beard Algae
# Black Spots on Aquarium Plants and How to Identify Black Beard Algae You’re looking at your carefully curated planted tank and there it is—dark, fuzzy growths clinging to your…
How to Clean Algae Off Aquarium Plants Without Killing the Plant
# How to Clean Algae Off Aquarium Plants Without Killing the Plant Three months after setting up my first planted tank, I watched in horror as my carefully chosen Cryptocoryne…
String Algae in a Planted Aquarium and Manual Removal vs Chemical Treatment
# String Algae in a Planted Aquarium: Manual Removal vs Chemical Treatment String algae can turn a beautiful planted tank into something that looks like it’s been abandoned for months.…
Algae Growing on Aquarium Plants and What Each Type Is Telling You
# Algae Growing on Aquarium Plants and What Each Type Is Telling You Nobody likes seeing algae coating their carefully chosen plants, but here’s something I learned after debugging more…
Algae Eating Fish and Shrimp for Planted Aquariums and Which Ones Actually Help
# Algae Eating Fish and Shrimp for Planted Aquariums and Which Ones Actually Help When you’ve spent weeks getting your planted tank balanced and suddenly notice green fuzz spreading across…
Green Spot Algae on Aquarium Plants and the Phosphate Connection Nobody Mentions
# Green Spot Algae on Aquarium Plants and the Phosphate Connection Nobody Mentions Walk into any aquarium shop and mention green spot algae, and you’ll get the standard advice: reduce…
Green Spot Algae on Aquarium Plants and the Phosphate Connection Nobody Mentions
# Green Spot Algae on Aquarium Plants and the Phosphate Connection Nobody Mentions You scrape it off the glass on Monday, and by Thursday it’s back. Those stubborn green circles…
Brown Algae on Aquarium Plants and Why New Tanks Always Get Hit First
# Brown Algae on Aquarium Plants and Why New Tanks Always Get Hit First Three weeks into your first planted tank and there it is: a thin, dusty brown film…
Fast Growing Aquarium Plants and How to Use Them to Outcompete Algae
# Fast Growing Aquarium Plants and How to Use Them to Outcompete Algae You know that sinking feeling when you peek at your tank in the morning and there’s a…
The Complete Guide to Dealing With Algae on Aquarium Plants
# The Complete Guide to Dealing With Algae on Aquarium Plants > **TL;DR: Start Here** > > 1. **Prevention first**: Start new planted tanks with 4-6 hours of light daily,…
Saltwater Aquarium Plants and Whether They Actually Exist or You’re Thinking of Macroalgae
One of the first questions I had when I started getting serious about marine aquariums was “what can I grow”? After years of successfully keeping “okay” freshwater plants, I wanted…
Chaetomorpha in a Saltwater Aquarium and the Macroalgae That Doubles as Filtration
Living in San Jose means your flats aren’t always big. After setting up my reef in just four square feet of living space, I learned to appreciate every piece of…
Red Macroalgae in a Saltwater Display Tank and the Species That Actually Look Good
While many reef keepers associate macroalgae with refugiums, not display tanks. Growing it out of sight in its own chamber and utilising it to pull nutrients without competing with their…
Reef Tank Hardscape and Building a Foundation for Coral and Macroalgae
Building your reef tank hardscape correctly is what decides if your corals will flourish or suffer for the coming years. Do it wrong and you’ll be battling algae outbreaks for…