Getting Rid of Algae in Planted Fish Tanks

The growth of the algae is a fact of the life that the every aquarium owner will be facing sooner or later after setting up the fish tank with the plants where some algae’s growth will healthy and normal but the excess algae growth will be hazardous to the life of the plants and fish. Knowing the harness of algae overgrowth is the important thing which we need to know while setting up the aquarium or the fish tank and following are the few things which we need to consider for controlling the growth of the algae in the fish tank.

·         Don’t place the fish tank where there is a direct sunlight because the sunlight can improve or promote the growth of the algae in order to avoid this you can use the artificial lights and when using the is lights make sure than the light is not stronger than the necessary lights.

·        Don’t over feed your fish where this will increase the phosphate level present in the water and make sure that you always remove the uneaten foods from the tank.

·      The growth of the algae can be controlled or avoided by performing the regular water changes and also maintain the habit of the changing the en to fifteen percent of the water from your aquarium at every week to keep the level of the nutrients to be low in the water. 

·       Always keep the live plants in the fish tank because these plants will use many of the nutrients present in the water so that the algae do not get any nutrients for promoting its growth. 

When you follow the above methods you can get rid of the algae growth and keep your fish tank or aquarium clean and look beautiful and this can be also controlled by using the water which have the low phosphate content with it and this makes the algae not to grow well.

 

Benefits of keeping the algae eating fish and critters

The benefit of keeping the algae eating fishes in the aquarium is that the fish will clean the algae present in the tank by eating it and in which only the critters and the fish can control the 100% growth of the algae. Some of the algae eating fishes are namely Siamese flying fox, plecostomus and otocinclus where they will help you in reducing the growth of the algae in the tank. 

These fishes don’t hurt any other fishes in the tanks where they only minimize the growth of the algae and when you use the plecostomus species for eliminating the algae then it will grow a couple of feet long which will be a issue when you are having a small tank. 

When you have problem in having the plecostomus species you can use the rubber nose plecostomus instead of the plecostomus where this will grow only few inches. You can also use the critters like apple snails which will eat the algae but it is more wreak havoc on any of the live plants.