In fresh water tanks, not bad personal hygiene.
We've got it bad in our 55. It's mostly a tetra tank. Gravel bottom. Planted with water sprite, anubias and another plant that looks like it but isn't. There's some petrified wood and ceramic tile in there too.
We've a Chinese algae eater because we like the fish. They do nothing to beard or hair algae.
It's not heavily planted, due to the algae choking out the plants, but there's more plants than I want to yank out and wash. We've also got the water pretty damn stable.
I've taken it out by hand and net. I keep the intake and filters clean to get all I can that way.
Any suggestions other than drain, wash and refill? I've considered saving most of the water to refill with and just risk reintroducing a little algae and go from there.
We've got it bad in our 55. It's mostly a tetra tank. Gravel bottom. Planted with water sprite, anubias and another plant that looks like it but isn't. There's some petrified wood and ceramic tile in there too.
We've a Chinese algae eater because we like the fish. They do nothing to beard or hair algae.
It's not heavily planted, due to the algae choking out the plants, but there's more plants than I want to yank out and wash. We've also got the water pretty damn stable.
I've taken it out by hand and net. I keep the intake and filters clean to get all I can that way.
Any suggestions other than drain, wash and refill? I've considered saving most of the water to refill with and just risk reintroducing a little algae and go from there.