A little reading… it likes quiet waters, this is a really high flow tank, but the water moss forms a mat, and it seems to like to fill in the gaps so to speak, and gets protection from the flow, amongst the moss… I have an 8 inch floating plant ring above an Anubis that needs a tad more light than it as getting, with the water moss mat over the top of that part of the tank, and that ring seems to separate the algae out, or it grows really well in that space, as I’m using that long handled spoon to clear the ring, and 90% of what I scoop out is the algae balls