5 Tips To Deal With Algae In Tropical Fish Tanks
Overgrowth of algae in tropical fish tanks can be a very frustrating problem, it can ruin your perfectly designed aquarium in no time if you don’t follow few simple guidelines. Here they are:
1.Cleaning
If you spot algae developing on any of your aquarium decorations or on the glass just scrape them, ( go to your shop of choice for special aquarium scrapers) remove the stones and rocks and scrub them. If you don’t act fast they can reproduce to the point that you won’t be able to simply scrape them.
2.Change water regularly
Make sure you do weekly water changes, 10% is a good amount to reduce your nutrients level.
3.Too much lighting
Make sure that the sunlight don’t operate on your tank as it can increase the algae population very very rapidly. Also make sure that your aquarium lighting is not too strong.
4.Overfeeding your fish
Don’t put too much fish food into the tank, basicaly if your fish can’t eat the amount you gave them in 2-3 minutes you are overfeeding them. By doing that you not only make your life harder ( more cleaning) but also you “feed” the algae which grows on excess nutrients.
5.Algae eating fish
You can also buy fish which base their diet on algae, they won’t eliminate your problem if you have a big overgrowth of them but can be helpful. Make sure that you match their water requirements with rest of your fish. Black Molly, Otocinclus and Plecos are a few of those algae eating fish species.
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