If you have one of these small, hair-size, and quite short algae in your new Aquarium, it’s perfectly normal! In fact, it’s a good sign that your Aquarium ecosystem is establishing.
When you see one of these, the first thing to observe should be the color and size of the algae and testing your water to understand what is the root cause.
+ Brown small Algae Diatoms (Diatomaceae):
If the color is rather brown, and not green, this may be because of Ammonia level is elevating too fast. All you should do is to change the water more often.
+ Green Fuzz Algae (Oedogonium)
If you have something small and green algae like this all over your plants, so chances are you’re Aquarium is low in CO2, get your test kit to find out. It can also be because of high levels of Ammonia.
Try to supply more CO2, change water to reduce Ammonia, reduce the amount of light to 6 hours, and repeat.
+ How can I remove small algae from Aquarium Plants?
Well, sorry to disappoint you but you can’t without damaging the plants first hand. If you already put fish and a lot of plants in your Aquarium, it doesn’t make sense to take the fish and all the plants out for wiping. Doing that will kill the plants also.
So the best way to clean is the starve the algae and use clean crew like Amano Shrimp (Caridina multidentata)
These small buddies work hard on cleaning the algae because to them these are yummy foods.
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