Algae masterclass for Beginners- Aquariums and Ponds- part 2

[@AndrewErman-r9x]

Thanks so much for this very interesting and important content. Much appreciated!

[@plantlifeproject]

You’re welcome, glad it was helpful!

[@LushSaltyAquariums]

Solid overview covering ALL the bases. TY for sharing :)

[@plantlifeproject]

Thanks!

[@MandyJane123700]

This is the first time youtube showed me a new video from you in a few months. I don't understand, I am subscribed and I always "like" your vids. I even try to comment every time because it seems to help the algorithm (or something, idk lol). Anyway, now I will go back and see what I've missed! I have a 300 gallon stock tank pond that I set up last year. The algae was pretty bad at first, but after 3 or 4 weeks of running a bog filter almost all of it cleared up. I think bog filters are kind of amazing. Of course it is very low stocked, and has lots of plants, which all helps. I also used a product called "Nualgi" which encourages diatom algae to grow and outcompete other types of algae. One of my aquariums has a persistent hair algae problem, I put a tiny bit of liquid CO2 booster in every day. It is an algaecide, but it's not harmful to fish, shrimp, or snails. It won't fix a severe algae problem, but it does help keep it in check. I'm pretty sure that tank's problem is caused by natural sunlight shining on it from the window for about an hour every day.

[@plantlifeproject]

I had to take some time off over the summer to catch up on other areas of life so that may be why you haven’t been seeing new videos. I’m glad you are enjoying the content, I definitely appreciate your support! It can be difficult to moderate intense sunlight, I have noticed the sun shifting further south through the summer and some of my ponds are getting more light than before which is causing some increase in algae in a few of the ponds.

[@Megatog615]

2:30 undergravel filter spotted!

[@plantlifeproject]

There it is!

[@Wizardsfishbox]

Love your channel! Your videos have peaked my interest in using house plants in aquariums. I am just getting back in the hobby during the pandemic, and I plan on staying. My questions are: 1. What is your method of keeping plant eating cichlids (severums) and others. (flag tail prochilodus) from eating the plant roots if they are hanging inside of the tank? 2.) Also, keeping large aggressive cichlids (jaguars, starry night, blue carpintis, etc) from ripping the roots to shreds? I really want to try your technique. Please don't hesitate to reference any of your videos because I know I haven't watched them all. Please note that pathos will not be an option for me because I live an apartment, and I can not grow the vines along the wall. Looking forward to your response.

[@plantlifeproject]

I’m glad you are enjoying the channel! Check out this video about protecting plant roots. It is an option for many different houseplants How to: Protect Pothos Roots from Aggressive Fish /cichlids, goldfish 🐟 kzbin.info/www/bejne/p3jCoYaijbaBY5I

[@WhatIsMisophonia]

I've got a little 10 gal walstad style nano shrimp tank with mostly dwarf hair grass, and even though I don't feed the shrimp (there's not even that many of them; like between 5 to 10 shrimp), there's a ton of this super light green hair algae taking over the tank, and I don't know what to do aside from reduce the light, or add maybe some otto catfish. It did have duckweed, but that's been dying off for some reason. Also, it's low ph but moderately high hardness.

[@plantlifeproject]

I would start with reducing the light. Getting some floating plants growing in there should help, but duckweed dying out is interesting since it is usually so adaptable. I don’t think 5-10 shrimp is enough to cause excessive nutrients in a planted tank. Have you done any water testing?

[@WhatIsMisophonia]

@@plantlifeproject I do use test strips; All of my tanks are natural and have zero nitrites/nitrates. I think honestly the hairgrass just isn't good enough to completely knock out the nutrients to such an extent that the algae can't grow; And I'm sure you know some algae is super low nutrient requirement. Just today though, I added some rotalia rotundifolia from a different tank into this one, and it should thrive because it's low nutrient and can feed off the soil whereas algae cannot, but yeah, I'll lower light as well. Also something I noticed is that because of the carpet of algae between the strands of hairgrass, the shrimp (and one golden mystery snail with a lovely hairdo of green hair algae on his shell) poop is simply gathering on top of the algae rather than being absorbed by the soil. I may need an algae eating fish just to temporarily knock out the string algae.

[@Gamer_photographer]

First view 🙃

[@plantlifeproject]

Muchas gracias, bruh!