Planted Aquarium Fuzz/Alge

[Kurt Brutting]

I have some fuzz growing all over my plants in my low-tech 40 gallon aquarium. I have my lights on a timer for 7.5 hours at 70% intensity. I scrubbed off the fuzz or alge twice in 3 days with two 30% water changes and it grows right back. Any insight or help is appreciated. Is it alge or something else? I dose easy green, easy iron, easy root tabs,  seachem potassium & advance. I have snails and BN plecos who don’t seem interested in eating it. It is a decently stocked tank so I do feed a lot. I do weekly water changes and the substrate is echo-complete. I also added a wave maker to increase flow this week to help the sponge filters and air stones. 

PH-7

Nitrate- 10-20ppm throughout the week

Nitrite- 0

GH-150ppm

KH- 60-80ppm

Once again help is appreciated. 

[BETTA999]

its kind of a mix of algae and detritus i think otos eat 

i think its brow diatom algae

Edited January 24, 2022 by bettta999

[H.K.Luterman]

Looks like hair algae to me, something that pops up when my lighting is too strong/long. Try lowering the duration of light each day - 5 hours is really all you need. How old is the tank? I find I mostly get hair algae like this on newer systems. 

[Kurt Brutting]

I cycled the tank in August and slowly added fish since. I recently added the Val’s a month ago. I will definitely lower the light duration and see if that helps. The light is an Aqueon Opti-Light which I have not been thrilled about.  
Thank you. 

 

[xXInkedPhoenixX]

Have you watched this Co-op video? It was fascinating. 2 of the things I took away from it was he said "flow grows algae" which was 🤯 to me. He also said Rhizone plants only need 3-4 hours of light and Stem plants 6. It's worth trying. Plus the video is pretty awesome and his tanks are BEAUTIFUL 

 

Edited January 24, 2022 by xXInkedPhoenixX
Typos are lame

[Kurt Brutting]

That fish store is awesome, he is a legend! Very interesting!