2.5 gallon help

[Joseph Arseneau]

Hi guys,

I have an established 2.5 gallon tank, that currently has 10 fish in
it, no bigger than 2 inches each. I am wondering what I can do to
control my algae problem. I currently have an 18 watt light on top of
it with no live plants. Any help would be appreciated.

[Jaden]

Joseph Arseneau wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I have an established 2.5 gallon tank, that currently has 10 fish in
> it, no bigger than 2 inches each. I am wondering what I can do to
> control my algae problem. I currently have an 18 watt light on top of
> it with no live plants. Any help would be appreciated.
>

Are these figures correct? Your tank is MASSIVELY overstocked. I always
use the rule of thumb of 1 Inch per gallon of fish - keeps you out of
trouble.

You have 20 inches of fish in 2.5 gallons.....

[philtas]

On Aug 7, 7:07 am, Joseph Arseneau > wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I have an established 2.5 gallon tank, that currently has 10 fish in
> it, no bigger than 2 inches each. I am wondering what I can do to
> control my algae problem. I currently have an 18 watt light on top of
> it with no live plants. Any help would be appreciated.

do you have a nitrate kit do you have any test kits ph nitrate ect
sounds like too many fish not enought water changes or could be
feeding to much or high phosphate, is it near a window how long is the
light on per day. sorry for so many questions but there could be a lot
of reasons.
algae needs somthing to feed on so somthing is feeding it, real
plants can take up a lot of nutragents ( if thats how you spell it )
and there is a lot of discussion abot having high phosphate to feed
the plants and that will reduce the level and also feed the plants.
hope this might help a bit
philip

[Tristan[_3_]]

On 7 Aug, 05:00, philtas > wrote:
> On Aug 7, 7:07 am, Joseph Arseneau > wrote:
>
> > Hi guys,
>
> > I have an established 2.5 gallon tank, that currently has 10 fish in
> > it, no bigger than 2 inches each. I am wondering what I can do to
> > control my algae problem. I currently have an 18 watt light on top of
> > it with no live plants. Any help would be appreciated.
>
> do you have a nitrate kit do you have any test kits ph nitrate ect
> sounds like too many fish not enought water changes or could be
> feeding to much or high phosphate, is it near a window how long is the
> light on per day. sorry for so many questions but there could be a lot
> of reasons.
> algae needs somthing to feed on so somthing is feeding it, real
> plants can take up a lot of nutragents ( if thats how you spell it )
> and there is a lot of discussion abot having high phosphate to feed
> the plants and that will reduce the level and also feed the plants.
> hope this might help a bit
> philip

go away Philtas, you wanted to be unscubscribed......you joined by
yourself yet you need help or someone else to dump your account.get a
clue idiot!

[atomweaver]

Jaden > wrote in :

> Joseph Arseneau wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I have an established 2.5 gallon tank, that currently has 10 fish in
>> it, no bigger than 2 inches each. I am wondering what I can do to
>> control my algae problem. I currently have an 18 watt light on top of
>> it with no live plants. Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>
> Are these figures correct? Your tank is MASSIVELY overstocked. I always
> use the rule of thumb of 1 Inch per gallon of fish - keeps you out of
> trouble.
>
> You have 20 inches of fish in 2.5 gallons.....

....and you've got too much light. In a fish only freshwater tank, 1-2
watts of lighting per gallon is more than enough. Get some floating
water sprite, to knock down the lighting, or get rid of your current
light, and use ambient room light for observation.
What you've set up right now is an algae factory (lots of light, _LOTS_
of fish waste). About the only other thing you can do to help the matter
would be 80% water chanes every other day, until you can get a 20 gallon
tank, that is.

DaveZ