Yannick
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How do I control those hairy algae on my plants. See the image...
I have my lights on for 10 hours per day. The tank isn't in sunlight and there's a good amount of plants.
I've read that a high concentration of nitrate and Phosphate could lead to algae however in my tank, the nitrate level never seem to get above 5. I do water changes every week for around 30%.
The Po4 test always come back with 0mg so I don't think I have an issue there...
Ph is 7.6, NH4, NO2 are 0 so that's all normal.
I have 9 otos but they don't seem to like these... They made great work of the brown algae but they don't seem to like these new algae.
I also have some nerrit snails and they don't bother with these algae either...
When I do water changes, I try to trim those hairs as much as possible but it's not easy to cut without cutting in the leaves.
Any thing else I can do to get rid of these or to control the growth?

I have my lights on for 10 hours per day. The tank isn't in sunlight and there's a good amount of plants.
I've read that a high concentration of nitrate and Phosphate could lead to algae however in my tank, the nitrate level never seem to get above 5. I do water changes every week for around 30%.
The Po4 test always come back with 0mg so I don't think I have an issue there...
Ph is 7.6, NH4, NO2 are 0 so that's all normal.
I have 9 otos but they don't seem to like these... They made great work of the brown algae but they don't seem to like these new algae.
I also have some nerrit snails and they don't bother with these algae either...
When I do water changes, I try to trim those hairs as much as possible but it's not easy to cut without cutting in the leaves.
Any thing else I can do to get rid of these or to control the growth?
