Seized Posted November 21, 2020 Share Posted November 21, 2020 My tabk has had an off and on battle with staghorn algae for a while now. Im almost ready to give up. I trimmed off almost everything in the tank that has stag on it. Any tips would be greatly appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Cory Posted November 21, 2020 Administrators Share Posted November 21, 2020 My first tip is don't trim everything off and don't give up. Instead approach it as a learning experience. It'll take a few months and hard work and learning to beat it, but when you have that skill, you'll be able to battle it forever. Do you have any alglae eaters that'll eat hair algaes yet? Siamese algae eater, flag fish, hungry amano shrimp, hungry mollies etc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted November 21, 2020 Share Posted November 21, 2020 The Co-Op posted this 1 minute read? How to get rid of hair, staghorn, string, and other filamentous algae WWW.AQUARIUMCOOP.COM Filamentous algae refers to the many types of algae that look like wet hair when you take them out of the aquarium (e.g., hair algae, staghorn algae... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 I highly recommend flag fish for knocking back staghorn algae. They're beautiful, underrated, and do a great job. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seized Posted November 25, 2020 Author Share Posted November 25, 2020 I do have some amano shrimp and ponds snails. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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