Chris2022 Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 Hi Fam, I got back from vacation today and my plants and tank are covered in what I think is black beard algae... can someone confirm? Is there an easy method to deal with bba? Im going to start with easy carbon tonight, but was unsure if I should manually remove some of the plants and try to brush it off. Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dakotascott71 Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 Kind of looks like a mix of staghorn and BBA. I had to battle this for a while. Easy carbon was a temp fix and getting the tank back to balanced is what did the trick for me. I manually removed as much as I could and then dosed easy carbon everyday. Slowly, and I mean SLOWLY, it went away. Also I have noticed Amano Shrimp like to munch on it occasionally 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chick-In-Of-TheSea Posted August 1, 2022 Share Posted August 1, 2022 You’ll want to reduce the time that your light stays on as well. There is a technique on this video for removing algae such as yours. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anitstuk Posted August 1, 2022 Share Posted August 1, 2022 Like someone mentioned earlier, try scrap as much off manually until it goes away by itself 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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