Thank you everyone for the replies! I'll try to address the questions asked in order.
@jsem321: My current stock is 11 gold barbs, 1 electric blue acara, 7 green cory aeneus, a nerite snail and 5 ramshorn snails, I don't know if i'd be pushing it adding ottos or siamese algae eaters but I think it's a great idea if I have space.
@nabokovfan87: I've attached a full photo of the tank, filtration is a Fluval 407 canister that is maintained once a month, lighting is from a fluval plant 3.0 at 30% max power (I grabbed the ratios from another thread on this forum), depending on nitrate build up I've been doing 30-50% water changes weekly.
@Rita: Yes this very slimy and slippery, I've noticed my ramshorn snails are doing a good job at eating it... when they decide to get on the plants haha.