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We had a good clean yesterday. I didn't take it all, but I did take the worst of it off the glass. looks a lot better 🙂

@xXInkedPhoenixX I do not believe it comes off in sheets or anything and I seriously hope that your concern isn't an issue. But just in case when I clean it tomorrow, I may be precautionary and dose it with Maricyn to be on the safe side. As to the tank size, that particular tank is 10 gallons, and I was considering getting a nerite for it and one for my larger tank as well, but hadn't decided for sure. Do you like nerite's better than other snail species? It does not have any detectable bad smell, so hopefully its just regular old green algae and not the icky bacteria you mentioned because that would be horrible, but I do have a quarantine container set up if I end up needing to rehome my fish temporarily if does end up being something bad. Thanks for the warning.

Typically I do about 20ish percent once a week on that tank. I really need to find a better lighting schedule, but the incoming sun makes that a bit difficult. I know I need to reduce the feeding schedule which will be easier not that the baby betta got big enough to eat the pellets, I just wasn't sure if I needed to do anything else other than just cleaning the glass and didn't want to have the tank crash if I cleaned too much. Thank you!

Hello, I'm usually not much of one to talk on forums, but after watching the youtube channels, I thought I might give it a try. I recently came back to the hobby in early January after a 5 year hiatus. I had moved and the move killed everything, my fish, my plants, all of it and I was so devastated that I just let the hobby go and my tank collect dust. I forgot how much I enjoyed the suspense of it all. Will any of them breed and if so what colors will I see? I have no returned and I currently have two tanks a 10G that has some live plants, a male betta that i got quite small and didn't even know what his fin/tail structure would be, 5 danios, a black mystery snail, and a few cherry shrimp. The other tank is a 29G and currently has a dalmation platy, 3 corys, several guppies (including fry that are less than a week old) some baby mystery snails, and an Otto. I have really been struggling with the guppies this go around, so I may end up transitioning over to something else but I haven't decided yet. I am also conducting research into the different varieties of puffers as I'd like to get one someday, but I am nowhere near ready for that, much more research is needed and work getting ready for it.

Hello all, I recently returned to the hobby about 3 or so months ago after a 5 year hiatus after moving killed everything. My ten gallon tank sits by a window that while it has a curtain has one of those that you can sort of see through. In any case over the last two or three weeks I've had an explosion of green algae that texturally is somewhat slimy. I only really have a light on first thing in the morning and some in the evening as no one is home to enjoy them during the day except on the weekends and with the window I feel they get enough light otherwise, however I do have one of those hydroponic farms sitting relatively close to the tank and think it might be causing the sudden bloom. I was having a bloom of the brown kind, but I just moved my Otto into the tank for about a week and that was all taken care of. I have in there a water sprite that I am having to cut back about once every week and a half, two medium plants that I'm not every sure what they are as I bought them at a chain store and the name was literally red plant, but they have some red and green leaf structures and the only thing I can say is they definitely aren't crypts, and I have a small pink flamingo crypt, other than that I have a medium sponge filter, a small sponge filter (getting it ready for a 5 gallon shrimp tank I want to try out), a betta, 5 danios, 4 shrimp, and a black mystery snail. I'm going to try to include a picture if I can get the picture transferred from my phone to this computer. This tank was set up specifically for the betta that I got very small and wasn't even sure what kind of fin/tail structure he was going to have (he was so small when I got him, he couldn't even eat betta pellets). So finally to the question, is this algae good or bad, ecologically? I know it kinda looks bad, but before I try to totally clean it up when I do my weekly maintenance tomorrow, I want to make sure I'm not going to cause the tank to crash. Also, any idea how to minimize it so it doesn't look so bad or if worse and its bad kind of algae how to eradicate it? Keep in mind that my fish are acting normally and my numbers are running normal 0, 0, 20. Hopefully these pictures will allow you to see. Thanks,

Hello, I'm what I'd call newly returned over the last few months! Welcome!