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…