cpoiri02

Hello everyone,

I'd like to get rid of an algae that grows in my tank, but I don't know what it exactly is... I've been looking for it in this forum, but can't really find it.

It's a blue-green thin hair algae that specially grows on the edge of Echinodorus leaves, and also on the snails' shells.

Can you help me to ID that algae ?

Thank you very much for your help !!!!!

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AaronT

It looks like beard algae possibly. Could you take a picture of it under water?

dukydaf

I agree with AaronT, it is beard algae. You can distroy it with bleach.. if you plan to start your aquarium again or if you are not in a hurry you can increase your Co2 and give us more water parameters and fertilization regime.

cpoiri02

Thank you for the reply

Sorry Aaron, I tried to take other pictures but they were bad.

This is my first tank. As I will move in a few weeks and start more seriously a new aquarium, I don't pay much attention to water parameters except pH (7.0) and GH (10) and I don't inject CO2 and fertilizer...

I will try CO2 and look for further information on this forum, before bleaching the tank

Last question : what beard algae exactly is ? Cyanobacteria, rhodophyta... ?

Thanks again !

hoppycalif

Here is a very good reference to bookmark: Aquarium Algae
I find this to be the best hobbyest grade algae identifier I have seen.

cpoiri02

Thanks hoppycalif for the link !

In fact, my algae looks like this one (photo from AquariumAlgae)



It is supposed to be staghorn algae. How do you get rid of these ?