I’ve been fighting it for awhile. Various nutrient levels, light levels, etc. Considering getting a nerite snail, but heard they can be a bit of an escape artist. Any tips?

  • Fades@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    First of all, you need to determine your triggers. These are likely too much light and/or too much nutrients. Is it a planted tank? One of the first things I did for this issue was to add more plants!

    As for what you can do beyond triggers, a good clean up crew helps a lot. I don’t have to worry much about any algae thanks to my team of mystery, nerite, rabbit snails in addition to some Hillstream Loaches and Siamese algae eaters.

    I also use the twirl technique for longer strings of hair algae, easy clean up!