green algae now!

[PufferGuy]

well after a battle with cyano, i finally won and reduced the amount of cyano by about 90% but now i have another problem which is green algae... a lot of little puffs of green algae have shown up all around my tank and im not sure how to go about getting rid of it.

any ideas?

 

[cthegame]

probably bryopsis, do the same thing you did when you were fighting cyano.

 

[yote]

+1 Game
You'll also have to manually remove as much of it as possible.

 

[ndepratt]

http://fish.suite101.com/article.cfm/bryopsis_a_common_pest_in_aquaria

decent article on it, luckily I've never had to deal with it :P

 

[Teixeira29]

+1 Yote I usually use my siphon to get stuff like that out!

 

[PufferGuy]

why does this stuff just have growth spurts like this? too much feeding/light and not enough flow?? or what

 

[cthegame]

why does this stuff just have growth spurts like this? too much feeding/light and not enough flow?? or what

Could be a number of reasons...remove as much of it as possible and do a water change afterward. Keep this up consistently twice per week until its all gone.

 

[yote]

JMO But I think a lot of it has to do with a new tank.I figure it takes time for every thing to actually settle in enough to be able to process excess nutrients.So we get algae.

 

[PufferGuy]

whats a good way to position powerheads to prevend algae from sticking to the sand?? right now i have a maxijet 900 and a 600. The 600 is at the top to oxigenate the water, and the 900 i just put right in front of the tank for now pointer stright so it skimms the sand untill the algae goes down a bit. Should i get another powerhead or should i place the ones i have differently?

 

[yote]

Theres really no good way to keep algae off the sand with powerheads.If the flow is stong enough to prevent the algae,its probably going to blow sand out.