Is there any solution to cladophora algae?

**evilhorde** · 06-10-2012, 12:11 AM

Hello everybody,
I have a betta sorority in a heavily planted tank and it has a nasty cladophora problem.
I have been manually pulling it out but everytime I do, I damage the plants a little bit more. Is there anything else I can do to eradicate this stuff or am I going to be pulling it out forever?

One good thing (i guess) is that when I pull the algae out, I toss it into my crab/shrimp tank and they seem to like it. The red claw crabs seem to like eating it and the shrimp are all over it too.

**smaug** · 06-10-2012, 01:10 AM

I have no first hand experiance with clad but seachem excel may work on it the same as any other algae. If you have not other moss type plants I would say try dosing excel. At first just in the water column and after a week then use the dose in a syringe and apply directly to the clad. Cut back lighting to under 8 hrs a day,feed sparingly and continue manually removing what you can. How big is the tank and what light source are you using?

**evilhorde** · 06-10-2012, 01:25 AM

Originally Posted by smaug

I have no first hand experiance with clad but seachem excel may work on it the same as any other algae. If you have not other moss type plants I would say try dosing excel. At first just in the water column and after a week then use the dose in a syringe and apply directly to the clad. Cut back lighting to under 8 hrs a day,feed sparingly and continue manually removing what you can. How big is the tank and what light source are you using?

The tank is a 29 gallon and I am using the sun for lighting. The tank sits in a window on the north side of my house and is mostly planted with an unidentified emersed plant from my local LFS.

(The bottle is just there to transprt and acclimate some cherry shrimps that I hope will eat this algae.)