Green algae on leaves

Hi all,

Recently, I noticed an increase in the algae growth on the leaves of
my stem and other broader leaves plants, like my ludwigia repens,
lotuses, anubias nanas and some echinodorus.

Algae growth on the tank surface is still managable, thanks to the
algae crew I have in the tank.

Can anyone tell me why is there an increase in the growth of algae on
the leaves of my plants and how do i rid them?

Cheers
Vincent

chemicals out of balance, or your lighting is getting old... I'm here to
tell ya... My lights got bad, I ignored 'em... eventually ended up with BBA,
Black Brush Algae... ugly, and hard to get rid of... new lights, good water,
ferts, and it's lessening...

"VincentTan" wrote in message
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Hi all,

Recently, I noticed an increase in the algae growth on the leaves of
my stem and other broader leaves plants, like my ludwigia repens,
lotuses, anubias nanas and some echinodorus.

Algae growth on the tank surface is still managable, thanks to the
algae crew I have in the tank.

Can anyone tell me why is there an increase in the growth of algae on
the leaves of my plants and how do i rid them?

Cheers
Vincent

Curious, my lighting is one year old. I had Black Hair Algae, lots of
it. I changed out the plants that were the worst and added new low
light plants in heavy density and shortened the number of hours the
lights were on by a couple of hours a day. No more BHA.

I have green and brown algae on the underside of the glass panels
where the air bubbler spashes water and close to the lights. Less
light, no water splash, no algae.

I figure adding low light plants and lots of them took up more
nutrients that the BHA was using and starved it.


On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 11:09:35 -0500, "RedForeman ©®"
wrote:

chemicals out of balance, or your lighting is getting old... I'm here to
tell ya... My lights got bad, I ignored 'em... eventually ended up with BBA,
Black Brush Algae... ugly, and hard to get rid of... new lights, good water,
ferts, and it's lessening...

"VincentTan" wrote in message
. com...
Hi all,

Recently, I noticed an increase in the algae growth on the leaves of
my stem and other broader leaves plants, like my ludwigia repens,
lotuses, anubias nanas and some echinodorus.

Algae growth on the tank surface is still managable, thanks to the
algae crew I have in the tank.

Can anyone tell me why is there an increase in the growth of algae on
the leaves of my plants and how do i rid them?

Cheers
Vincent