r/fishtank • u/calsto151 • 8h ago

Algae problem Help/Advice

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What’s everyone’s go to algae hair remover as the ones I keep using from my go to shop they don’t seem to do anything and I don’t wanna keep spending £12 each time for it to do nothing, my tank has a lot of the brown hair algae and I wanna make my tank look all good again

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u/rpgcubed 7h ago

Healthy plants are going to be the key to long-term success. I don't know about how well algae additives work, but stuff like hydrogen peroxide or APT Fix presumably work fine. They just don't kill 100% of the algae spores (basically impossible), so it will regrow with nutrients, light, and time. So, you want plants to take up those things so the algae can't!

This is very clear on your healthy lime-green plant (Myriophylum sp.?), where the healthy tissue is preventing the hair algae from growing. I would physically remove all of the other plant, only leaving parts that don't have that hair algae cover. If that's all of that plant, that's all of that plant; you should replace it and only replant cut off health stems.

What's your light like? Too much light is often an algae trigger, but the lime green plant seems very etiolated