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I have been having algae problems in my 55 red wolf fish tank lately. There has been some algae in the tank for most of the time it has been set up but mostly just on the driftwood and glass. I don’t mind it on the driftwood so I leave it there. recently after adding a large piece of drift wood I found, the brown algae started to take of on the wood, the last remaining java fernlet and my Pogostemmon. My banana plant is mostly untouched, my Amazon sword has a couple leaves with algae but is doing fine. The Java fernlet has died. The Pogostemmon is almost gone. My crypts don’t have much algae but have what looks like small bites taken out of them (there is a longear sunfish but I don’t know if they eat plants). Also there is a dark green algae (I don’t think it is bga) growing on the glass. I started dosing easy green at 1 pump per ten gallons. After about two weeks of dosing easy green the tank developed green water. It has also had green water for a long time but never enough to tell it was green unless you looked from the surface. I have around an inch of Fluval stratum as my substrate and I don’t vacuum much of the mulm that accumulates. I have an aco light that I run at 60% but my homemade lid blocks quite a bit of light so it probably only gets about half of that. I currently have 3 crypts, 1 sword, 1 banana plant, 1 Pogostemmon, and some mayaca fluviatillis floating around. I intend on adding more plants when my lava rock caves are done. how can I get rid of the algae?
