Fighting staghorn algae

• pH: 6.7
• Temp: 80
• KH: 5
• GH: 8
• NH4:
• NO2:
• NO3: 10
• PO4:
• Iron:
• Dosing: 5 mL Flourish, 0.5 ppm iron chelate
• NO3:PO4 Cumulative Dosing Ratio:

Notes:

The third week of green dust algae growth.


After wiping off the green dust algae during the water change yesterday.

You can see the green beard and staghorn algae growing all over the plants in the second picture. I noticed that the green beard algae had grown more over the last 3 days that I was away from the tank. Perhaps not keeping up on the daily dosing of micros helped encourage the beard algae to grow. I've been trying to keep the nitrate levels up to see if that will help with the staghorn algae. I've also been making sure the CO2 levels stay up (>24 ppm). We'll see if there is any change over this next week.