Brush algae

[sdivell]

My planted tank is slowly being taken over by what I believe is Brush Algae (small clumps of a dark hair like algae).  Its all over my Hygros, dwarf sag and westeria.

Will a SAE take care of this? or should I just keep removing leaves?  although I can't seem to keep up with it and its driving me nuts.

any other solutions?

[charlie]

Check out this thread in the plant forum & i think there is some others too.
http://ovas.ca/index.php?topic=19480.0
Regards

[fischkopp]

It may be a lag of CO2, my planted tanks suffered from this. Since I added CO2 and try to keep the level sort of constant the black brush algae seems to be under control. Check these two threads out:

Thread 1
Thread 2

SAE are known to go for BBA when they are young and desperatly hungry. But for a 21g they may become to big after a while. Removing all affected leaves is definitely a good thing to do when fighting BBA.

[sdivell]

I do plan on moving my 21g to a 55g in the new year after I'm finished setting up my 10g nano.... and then i'm sure the 10g nano will turn into a 21g nano 

well I can tell its probably the Co2.  I was running Co2 but my hygros were growing over the waterline every couple days so when my Co2 mix was done I decided not to start it and thats probably why i have all this BBA.

Anyone know where to get the Plant Gro Co2 System Bubble Counter these days? petsmart and BA's dont seem to cary them anymore.

[charlie]

I do plan on moving my 21g to a 55g in the new year after I'm finished setting up my 10g nano.... and then i'm sure the 10g nano will turn into a 21g nano 

well I can tell its probably the Co2.  I was running Co2 but my hygros were growing over the waterline every couple days so when my Co2 mix was done I decided not to start it and thats probably why i have all this BBA.

Anyone know where to get a hagen ladder these days? petsmart and BA's dont seem to cary them anymore.

Did you try Aquarium services , also i`m sure someone on the forum has one.Try a wante post in the classified.

You can also do the black out routine but you still have to fix the cause after.
http://ovas.ca/index.php?page=5