Algae problem

Hi all. I have an on going problem of a furry type of dark green algae in my planted tank. I have tried different remedies to no avail. The roots of my plants growing on the drift wood are totally covered in a blanket of the algae. My tank is otherwise very healthy. 280 litre; PH 6.5; 26c. Can anyone recommend anything that may help? Thanks.

 

Siamese algae eaters love black beard algae. You could keep 2 in a tank of your size. Just be 100% sure that they're Siamese algae eaters and not Chinese or golden or anything else. Maybe you can post a pic of your tank and filter so that we can indent iffy any obvious problems?

 

It's a Boyu with normal Boyu pump and filter. I have charcoal in the one side of the filter.

 

Can you share a pic?

 

I also have a bit of a BBA proplem in my new tank except for the obvious remendy of algae eaters I read up that flourish exel or any liquid C02 gets rid of it so I'm going to give it a try end of the month has anyone tried this method ?

 

I have tried Flourish Exel. After reading Broder's reply, I think I have a found a problem with my pump. It is not circulating as strongly as before and I now realise that my filters have been quite clean lately so filtration is not as efficient as it should be. I am going to run a new pump and see if it helps. I will continue with the Exel. The supplier I use sold me 2 golden coloured algae eaters. They are very busy eating the algse and I am sure that once the pump is running properly they might cope a bit better. I have a Bristle Nose but she is so lazy!

 

Just watch. Out those fish are not chinese algae eaters they become very agressive when grown up @Dezi

 

Thanks so much. I won't buy Chinese ones.... I have heard before that they are aggresive. Don't need that in my tank. It's peaceful!

 

When you used the flourish excel did you double dosage ?

 

Hi,
I am curious...why ph6.5?

 

No I only gave single dose! Should I also add Algae Remover (Waterplant System)

 

Suits my fish. They are all doing famously and have done for months now. Plants doing well and even flowering. Besides the algae I have no problems.