Got some “blue galaxy” caridina, some look the same, but others pretty different. Are these all the same shrimp? (Minus the orange rili, and crystal red and amano) I also got some boa I picked up in another tank.
My hair algae has got so bad I doubt my plants will recover. The weeping moss, glossostigma, ludwigia super red and most of the dwarf hair grass are covered in hair algae that is impossibly for me to remove without damaging the plants. Oddly the rotala blood red isn’t phased at all. Maybe because it grows so fast?
I toned down the Chihiros B45 from 70% to 50% and kept the 8 hour photo period about 1.5 weeks ago but that didn’t change anything. Maybe I’m over fertilizing? I dose 1ml APT 3 daily for this 10 gallon tank, I’ll cut that down to .5ml and see what happens. The tank is up and running for about 40-45 days now.
The tank is in my office which receives a lot of light from my ceiling light and computer screens outside the 11am-7pm lights on period. Not sure if the excess light is contributing to my hair algae issue.
I been removing some hair algae in areas that I can. If me doing the half dose of APT 3 fixes the issue, will all new growth be hair algae free? Or will the current algae continue to spread to the new growth? If it doesn’t spread then maybe I can let the plants grow enough to take new clippings, remove all the affected areas and replant?
What would you do in my situation? This is my first setup and I’m pretty disappointed. I don’t mind scrapping the moss and other affected plants and starting fresh, but I don’t want the new plants to get infested with algae and be in the same boat. I did add 5 amano shrimp a few days ago, but they seem to be eating biofilm and not the hair algae.