u/jcroskey

Got my first aquarium started up in February and I’ve really enjoyed getting into the hobby. Over the past couple of weeks I’ve started to get algae developing on driftwood, rocks, substrate, and plants. I’m not too worried about it in some places because I know it’s natural, but I don’t want it to strangle my plants and don’t want as much on the substrate itself (this is actually a pretty light covering on substrate as I just vacuumed it).

I’ve played with my light settings a lot, vacuumed, and done water changes, but haven’t had a lot of luck getting it off of the plants. I also have a bristlenose pleco, but it’s still growing and hasn’t made much of a difference on surfaces yet. I got some shrimp the other day, but I can no longer find any of them and can only assume they became midnight snacks for my gouramis.

Can anyone give me some advice on helping to limit the algae on plants and substrate? Is there anything obvious I’m missing?

Got my first aquarium started up in February and I’ve really enjoyed getting into the hobby. Over the past couple of weeks I’ve started to get algae developing on driftwood, rocks, substrate, and plants. I’m not too worried about it in some places because I know it’s natural, but I don’t want it to strangle my plants and don’t want as much on the substrate itself (this is actually a pretty light covering on substrate as I just vacuumed it).

I’ve played with my light settings a lot, vacuumed, and done water changes, but haven’t had a lot of luck getting it off of the plants. I also have a bristlenose pleco, but it’s still growing and hasn’t made much of a difference on surfaces yet. I got some shrimp the other day, but I can no longer find any of them and can only assume they became midnight snacks for my gouramis.

Can anyone give me some advice on helping to limit the algae on plants and substrate? Is there anything obvious I’m missing?