Green slime algae on plants

[fishiefun]

I have a 40 gallon long planted tank, and was referred to you guys to ask about this new algae I have in my aquarium.

It is like a dark green slime, wipes easily off of my plants leaves, currently it is on some chain swords and a small amazon swords leaves. I am just worried that it is going to get out of control on me too fast. I am also currently fighting black algae, but slowly winning the war against that pest!

I have 130 watts of 6700k compact flourescents over the tank, a fluval 304 filter, and no co2 at the moment, as my home made setup ended up being more of a mess than anything.

Any idea of what kind of algae I have and what I can do to knock it back.

 

[Ob1]

I had the same problem. It sounds like the same stuff I had. the first thing I did was check the phoshate - which happen to be well over 10mg.

so I used a phosahte remover and this help to reduce the phoshates - however the alge remained. all the water perameters were really good.

In the end I read somewhere I think i may have been in the this forum, to reduce the light - with that I reduced the lighting to half its normal powers (I have 4*36watt plus t5)

I left only two 36 watt tubes on for 2 weeks and all the green alge left the tank. I still get a bit every so often - I still think high phoshate had somthing to do with the alge. but reducing the light worked

I hope it helps
jason

 

[Bangin]

That algae can also be caused by poor water circulation.

With wattage that high I would add CO2 again soon.