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My planted tank has been set up for a couple of months now and things have been going great. Plants are looking healthy and growing nicely.
I've noticed today that on my anubias plant that there is some algae starting to form on the leaves, some green and a little bit on leaf edges that looks redish.
Any suggestions on what I can do to get this algae under control before it gets out of control?

Tank is 55g, lights are on for 10 hours and has 2.6w/gall.

Thanks,
Lindy

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Hi Lindy,

Unfortunately, Anubias are so slow growing that they are veritable martyrs to Algae, even in the most balanced of tanks.Being so slow growing the algae really has time to settle on the plant.I'm sure this why you are seeing the algae on the anubias and not the other plants.I have the same problem.

Cutting down on nutrients,light etc is not really a solution as they use so little anyway that all you really do is create problems for the other plants.

There are still a few things you can do. I've found that putting them in a shaded spot out of direct light helps a lot without affecting their growth. I have very few problems with the shaded anubias.
A good algae eater may help to keep it under control. For the green spot algae ottos should be ok, for any other that grow on the leaves an SAE is the only way to go.
The other option is by using Co2. With Co2 even anubias grow relatively quickly, this extra push in growth helps them keep up and out compete the algae.

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my clown plecos and flying foxes take care of almost all the algae on my anubias barteri. the only thing they miss is the stuff around the edges.

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