Reply To: String algae
I’ve got the same problem in my breeding tank. Have tried using a chemical “anti-hair algae” for the last 3 weeks (from Interpet) but it doesnt’ seem to be doing anything, and I’m having to go in and remove the worst of it with my fingers, plucking it off my other live plants.
My local tap water is naturally high in nitrates, so I’ve been adding a nitrogen-reducing chemical (NitrateMinus from Tetra), which does seem to be lowering the nitrate levels in the tank to near zero, but I still get the algae quite badly.
I went the shrimp route thinking this might work, but I noticed that the steady growth in numbers of fry I’d had up until I added them had levelled off (and for a few days thought my fry numbers was decreasing), so I was worried that the shrimp might have been eating the fry/eggs and moved them to another tank (and my fry numbers are again increasing, which lends support to the idea that the shrimp may eat CPD eggs/fry.)