Algae problem

[ZoeNC1]

Hi I’m not sure if I should post this here or to the live pants section but basically last month I started my first planted tank (six gallon) everything had been running smoothly until a few days ago when I got an algae bloom (green hair algae I think) I thought it was caused by too much excess nutrients in the water since I’d used a majority of water from my 29 gal taken before my weekly water change. I managed to spot clean the largest areas but each day more algae appears and the glass is foggy dispute my efforts to clean it.
I have added two cherry shrimp (the only ones left from a group of five from my 29 gal) to try and help but I’m not sure if it will make a difference.

I would really appreciate any advice as to what I can do, or if the algae will go away if I wait.

I do have a timed light set for 12 hours (six day six night) and I have been trying to reprogram it to have less time on as I thoughts that might be an issue but the thing is pretty stubborn.

Any and all advice will be appreciated thanks for the help

I’ve included an image of the tank after another feeble attempt at removing some of the algae.

 

[Spudsssy]

It's normal to get hair algae In new tanks... Plants need some time to establish and you will find a balance eventually.

I would do 8 hours light and give it another two months. If it's still a big problem after that then start looking into it further.

I setup new planted tank and had loads of hair algae... It's pretty much gone now after 3 months.

 

[Cherryshrimp420]

I start my light at 0 and increase to 1 hour, 2 hours etc until I see algae forming and I'll stop at that. So basically start low and increase, rather than start high and decrease....that's what I've found to help a lot with algae.

 

[Broggy]

I had a severe algae problem last month so I put pond snails in. the snails cleaned the walls of my tank within a week, and had cleaned my large anubias in just one day. they've eaten so much algae that I have to grow more to keep feeding them.

 

[StarGirl]

Pest snails are a pain but they do keep things tidy.

 

[ZoeNC1]

Thank you all for your advice I’m going to try and adjust the lighting and maybe get a snail. I’ll update in about a month or two with the progress thanks again

 

[Tryne]

From my own experience, my heavily planted high tech nano tank gets only 7h per day now after 6 months.
Just enough to get a tiny small amount of algae for my Amanos and Cories (actually only on the HOB because it is black plastic I guess..).
At 9h I get an algae bloom.
13h is what I started my first tank with. It was way too much. I know for sure now that as stated above, always start with a small amount and increase slowly until you find a limit.
Then set it back 2h and wait a couple months.
I may be wrong here but I believe I heard 12h would be fine for a dry start.