Algae help

[Mackie]

Can anyone help me identify this algae and any recommendations on how to get rid of it? I have lowered the light (fluval 3.0) to 60par, I've been lightly dosing easy carbon and have stopped ferts altogether for the past 2 weeks due to higher than normal nitrates. Was using easy green, was hoping the plants would eat up more of the nitrates. Also being careful with the carbon since I have anarchis in the tank. Upped my water changes from once to twice a week. It's only appearing currently on the slower growing plants (buce, anubias, cryptolucians) but it has spread quite a bit. 

Test done today-

Ph 7.4, amm 0, trite 0, trates 40ppm

36 gallon, planted, 2 ebr's, 13 neon tetras, 2 ottos and 4 baby mollies (ps, ottos and mollies are not touching it)

[Widgets]

There is quite a bit of algae identification and treatment information on this site.

https://www.2hraquarist.com/blogs/algae-control

That last picture has staghorn algae on the edge of the leaves, and maybe green spot algae on the surface of the leaves.

[Mackie]

Thanks, I will check this out. I've done alot of reading and just can't seem to figure out the right way to go about it since there are so many different variables and methods 

[nabokovfan87]

On 3/31/2022 at 5:56 PM, Mackie said:

36 gallon, planted, 2 ebr's, 13 neon tetras, 2 ottos and 4 baby mollies (ps, ottos and mollies are not touching it)

Add 4-8 amano shrimp and you'll never regret it.

[Mackie]

Thanks for the tip! I thought about that but I don't want to over stock, I'm gifting the baby mollies next week so maybe I'll revisit it then