Freshwater Aquarium Maintenance - 3 Things You Can Do to Control Algae Growth

 What Is Algae? 

Green growth is regularly alluded to as a plant, indeed green growth is a complex unicellular organic entity alluded to as a protist in the eukaryotic realm. Sorry to utilize such long words yet essentially it's anything but a plant it does anyway have similar precursors. Does Planted Hair Need Any Maintenance

Green growth shows up in various tones and structures. The most well-known is as a green film over the outside of the aquarium glass however it tends to be earthy colored, red or blue-green and it can cover the plants, rock rocks and so on just as the glass. 

Types include: 

Earthy colored Algae - regularly shows up in recently arrangement tanks and can vanish as fast as it showed up 

Green Algae - Likely to show up in any appropriately running tank 

Hard 'Green Dot' Algae 

Hair Algae - Long greenish or dark strands that can be taken out with a toothbrush. Green growth eating fish additionally like it 

Red/Brush Algae - Often shows up on plants and can be taken out utilizing a frail dye arrangement. Can be the aftereffect of overloading your fish 

Green Water - Also called 'Green growth blossom'. It is a suspension of minuscule green growth. Water changes and low light for a couple of days ordinarily dispose of it 

Blue-green Algae (cyanobacteria) - This is definitely not genuine green growth. It shows up as vile covering plants. It can deliver harmful poisons. It is effectively taken out physically. Fish won't eat it and in some cases expanded air circulation assists with forestalling it 

Green growth is somewhat inescapable and isn't generally something awful. Green growth needs both light and supplements to endure which is actually what your fish and plants need so you are never going to kill it totally. Nothing remains at this point but to oversee it by scratching the glass consistently most likely a little while. The best ideal opportunity to do the scratching is not long before you utilize your siphonic rock cleaner when you do a water change. 

3 Ways To Control Algae 

Control the light 

There are various things that you can do to limit the development of green growth because of a lot light. The main thing is to keep away from direct daylight hitting the tank the subsequent thing is to ensure that you don't enlighten the aquarium for more than 12 hours consistently. These two things alone will assist with limiting green growth development. 

Control supplements 

the supplements being referred to are nitrates, phosphates and silicates. Nitrates are consistently present in an all around run aquarium and phosphates and silicates are contained in the fish food so its absolutely impossible that these supplements can be taken out totally. They can be limited by not overloading the fish and by successive water changes. You can likewise plant the tank vigorously with the goal that the plants take up most of the supplements. 

Add green growth eating fish 

there are various fish that eat green growth however you can't depend on them to totally eliminate it, you will consistently need to scratch the glass. Among these vegan fish there are: 

Basic plec which preferences green earthy colored and brush green growth 

Siamese green growth eater which preferences green earthy colored and brush green growth 

Chinese green growth eaters/sucking Loach 

Bristlenose 

Peckoltia catfish 

Whiptail catfish 

Green growth eating shrimp