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Not sure what it will do to the water column. I used a net when it happened in my tank.

I have powerheads on a timer in my tanks. I'd not do it with my hobs for reasons others have stated. One consideration, if your tank is planted would be to run at night instead of the day. Planted tanks need more surface agitation at night for oxygen.

If you have an ammonia spike you will likely have a bubbly froth in your water.

First try potassium. Then try seachem flourish advance (it doesn't have nitrogen).

I bought pads in a big roll and cut them to the size of my hob with scissors.

My tank had brown algae on three sides. I scrape the front. I added a bristlenose pleco. It was an adult from another established tank. 75 gallon aquarium. Two days. Zero brown algae.

Cucumber or zucchini might work. My plecos attach themselves to them.

I want a direct connection to plumbing so I don't have to mess with tubes and pumps when changing water.

Do not just read the headline in his thumbnails, watch the whole videos. For instance, he's clear that if you have FRY you should be feeding MORE frequently, not less. Many of his videos have the same pattern of reasonable advice in the thumbnail so long as you watch the video and understand the context.

Plus one on potassium suppliments. I dose a little bit twice a week, and recently started using seachem flourish instead of easy green. (my tanks are well stocked, so the nitrogen in easy green isn't necessary ) Here's an old and recent shot, tank does have CO2.

If you have the capacity, a siamese algae eater will probably num it.

Potassium is a relatively safe suppliment that my plants respond well to. I've recently added Seachem flourish advance once or twice a week as well. In both cases I use far less than recommend (I use a capful for each tank, a 55 and a 75 gallon tanks.) I get transparent leaves if I stop the potassium suppliment. I'm associating the flourish advance with some new anubais growth, but could be confirmation bias. In the past I've also tried very modest amounts of iron and phosphate suppliments. They both corellated with algae, but I did it before I added CO2.

Root tabs for root feeders? (never mind don't always see every word before 9am)

When I was dialing in CO2 levels, I summoned worms like that if I over did it. I assumed they were seeking the O2 above the CO2.

I used it to shorten uplift tubes. It might be too small if you need 1.5"