I agree with all comments but when you consider all this that I have/ done
You might understand why I've asked this question
When you've got Bristlenose pleco's, no sunlight hitting the tank (even keep the curtains in the living room closed now lol). NitrAtes low 15ppm tested today, regular water changes (weekly), Filter maintenence fortnightly, Light on timer for 8hrs, Green X in the filter
Algae is still growing in the tank!!!! even when the tank was going through ICH treatment,
One new thing I've started is to reduce amount of food, also the tank runs two filters one internal (fluval +1) and a canister (fluval 404)
Funnily enough my other tank doesn't suffer with algae at all, but doesn't have real plants, it seems like the algae bloom started soon after introducing real plants
So to me that rules out the tap water causing it?
Trying my best to find the source!!! and scraping all algae that appears daily now lol
In two forms : green dot algae - doesn't bother me
Short hair algae -bothers me- it grows on pipes, my heater and
White rocks (which gets so bad that I have drilled algae off to remove the stubborn arggh
I've tried the getting loads of plants method to get the nutrients before the algae does. the algae won
But saying all this I'm controlling it by scraping the hair algae off, I would like it that I didn't get it in the first place.