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Green hair algae?

This is a discussion on Green hair algae? within the Plants/Algae/Ferts/EI/CO2/Lighting forums, part of the Aquarium Related Chat category; So a new algae seems to have popped up in my divided 10g. For a while, I was fighting with ...

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    So a new algae seems to have popped up in my divided 10g. For a while, I was fighting with slime algae. Got that under control by reducing the lighting a couple of hours.
    Now just today I noticed something new. Looks like possibly green hair algae? Last water change was about 30% on Sept. 3, and I didn't notice it then.

    What might this be caused by, and is it another "bad" algae (ie taking oxygen out of the water)?



    Interesting, I just noticed right now it's this side that has the most algae. This half of the tank sort of has the light focused over it (because of the filter, I can't get the light over both halves). The other side has very little algae of any sort in it.

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    i had some and black algea.. the flagtails ate it
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    um does not alge use co2 and produce o2

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    Moved to Plant section~

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    James' Planted Tank - Algae Guide

    Looks like either spirogyra or blanket weed?

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    Thanks Shaobo - Contemplated putting it in the plant section but wasn't sure if algae fell into that category

    Thanks for the link Gyrus. Don't think it's Blanket Weed, but perhaps spirogyra or Rhizoclonium, since there is not a whole lot of water flow.

 

 

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