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How To Stop Staghorn Algae in Your Aquarium - In Depth Solutions: The Staghorn Menace
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- čas přidán 30. 07. 2021
- Today we examine several tanks dealing with Staghorn algae and issues with plant health. Let's dive into what the problems are, and the process I used to help set up these tanks for long term success and a decisive victory in the war against Staghorn Algae!
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Lived up north and never had an issue with the stuff always had Blackbeard issues but worked with it. Move to the mountains my water drops from 8.2 to 6.9 out of the tap. I too have aquasky 2.0 on my 40 with light co2 and I am having the same issues! Almost identical water parameters as well 😂. When it comes to solutions I was spot treating but this last bloom has coated everything. I have increased the flow some as well and have been doing my best to remove some everyday. I have 4 amanos, 8 ottos, 2 panda garras, and 3 rainbow stiphodons, and a tiger pleco as an algae combat crew. The other fish in the tank are 6 habrosus, 1 peacock gudgeon(retiree), and 8 phantoms cats (Kryptopterus vitreolus). Is there anything I should do with stocking that could help? Maybe more amanos? Anything to speed up the process!
You are an exceptional human being!!! In our world today to find people that give freely of there own time to help others is a rare and wonderful thing to see!!! Thank you for being you and being awesome!!!
Thank you for this sir. You’re a wonderful asset to the hobby
I never thought I’d be so excited about getting down to dealing with staghorn algae… I’m on it TODAY. Thanks for such an informative video Bentley
I currently have black beard algae and it's tough getting it out :(
Also can you do a video tour on all the tanks you have? I really want to see how they all look!
your videos are always helpful, I am going to save this one in case i ever have to face staghorn algae.
Thanks so much, I don't have different light settings on my lights, but I'll try my best to follow the rest of the advice.
In case no one said it thank you for the info and lesson
What a little hidden gem this channel is. I almost selfishly want it to not grow bigger so you can continue to answer our questions individually, but I hope even more that you get the subscribers you deserve.
I’m getting the beginnings of staghorn algae, and it’s a relief to know that someone dosed the maximum amount of glutaraldehyde and their amanos didn’t die, because that’s what’s been holding me back from dosing the necessary amount to get rid of it. It’s gotten worse since I decided to try to dose a little more fertilizer, so I think I’ll also try increasing my photoperiod a bit, but only a little since I have a low-tech tank. Also, it seems to prefer growing on my filter at the place where bubbles rise? Isn’t that the place they’re least likely to be, considering water flow inhibits their growth?
And out of curiosity, do you know if horned nerites will eat staghorn algae even if it’s not dead? I don’t plan on getting any unless I can’t completely get rid of it with glutaraldehyde, I’m mostly just curious since they’re famous for being just about the only snail that eats thriving black beard algae.
I think it's too tough for even something like a horned nerite to handle, but I don't have direct experience there so I can't give a definitive answer
@@BentleyPascoe Thanks! I might just buy some in the future because they look cool and I love nerites.
Way to kick off the series! I love your channel… Keep up the great work.
Wonderful video. These lessons will be so valuable for planted tank keepers. Thank you for your generosity .
Thank you so much for this information! I’m going to daily do the spot treatment within SeaChem Excel and turn my light intensity down. After that I’ll get some otocinclus to eat it all up. 🙂🙂🙂
Ah Bentley... A hero amongst common men
Great Explanation!! Always enjoy listening to you explaining the processes of aquarium keeping!!
This was really great! I have a staghorn problem right now and I'm going to give this method a try.
TIL that I don't have to turn off my air pump when I am running CO2. Thank you for clearing up that myth @Bentley Pasco
I have to opposite problem. I’m trying to grow algae on the wood in my humpback dragon puffer’s tank. Excellent idea for a series!
Nice 1st episode.
Thanks Bentley. I love your content you are so helpful.
Great video Bentley really enjoyed this! Can’t wait to see more I love learning anything and everything to better my hobby! I appreciate you
Never dealt with staghorn algae but I still learned something.
I learned that you are for real brutha! I’m sure this took quite a bit of your valuable time. Thanks for doing this!
And by the way…..cool hat. Looks a little like the old school Thrush muffler mascot.
If it doesn’t sound too nerdy I think you should let us know each video which team your hats are representing.
Thanks again Bentley. I enjoy your work very much.
Akron Rubber ducks, minor league baseball team. It's a great logo!
@@BentleyPascoe love your hat collection. The minor league genre is filled with interesting mascots and logos. So much fun to watch too. We have the Dayton Dragons.
I have been fighting staghorn for a while and the hydrogen peroxide dip is the absolute best thing I have done. However, not practical for most of the tank. My problem is that easy carbon is tough on a few of my plants I believe. Is there a decent list? I just see Val all the time. Thanks Bentley you're the best!
Vals and pretty much any Aponogeton.
This was such a great video, thanks for covering this topic! staghorn really is the most annoying 🙃
Great video very informative
Awesome video!
I'm looking forward to this series. I had a bad staghorn outbreak in one tank and, you're right, Excel worked well. Did your "client" turn off the filtration during the treatment?
When I got some tiny spots here and there, I tried everything and nothing would work. Spot healing it all the time, daily. One thing that people don't know is that Seachem excel's Glutaraldehyde solution leaves a sticky slime (if you use it for many days) which you cannot remove whatever you do. In the end, I just bought 1 cannister filter 407 Fluval which was 5 times more powerful than my internal Fluval U3 filter. Staghorn got disappeared totally after 3 weeks by itself because of the high flow. My water parameters were perfect for my 2x 90lt tanks and the plants were thriving. I guess I had small areas in the tank in which the water would loop instead of getting all the way to the filter and back again.
I would love to use liquid carbon like excel but I have vallisneria and the staghorn is on that and the excel just nukes the vallisneria even if I try small dose. Was excited when I saw the title of the video but like most videos they never go over how to treat sensitive plants like vallisneria! Either way fun video to wtach.
In this case the best option is a large increase in the tanks overall flow. Staghorn also hates flow.
I'm amazed from the way you explained the problem and the solutions, i want to apply your tips the thing is I'm from another world that doesn't have liquid carbon products in fair price, only the glutaraldehyde ingredient itself is buyable, the question is what concentration should i be using and how to dilute it?
Thanks in advance
Check out this thread, it may help you get some indication of dosing: www.aquaticplantcentral.com/threads/glutaraldehyde-instead-of-excel.31615/
I don’t even have staghorn I’m just enjoying the content lol
Nice video, great to see your satisfaction in helping someone! I recently have had very minimal black filamentous algae (possibly stag horn) in my new tank, in addition to dosing ferts everyday, I moved the water change back up to bi weekly instead of weekly but I think a real breakthrough was adding 2 tissue culture pots of hygrohilla polysperma - not only have they grown in well filling a portion of the tank but the filamentous algae has receded. That’s my go to for now on!
Wonderful!!!
I have a 55 and it's doing great could you help me with slowing it down the plants grow way to fast and the last time I started to cut back on ferts and co2 i got algae. Not sure how to slow it down. Thanks for all you do Bentley.
It's a slow process to dial things back.
what test should i be carrying out on my water to know what i need to dose exactly. Is there a certain test kit I could buy.
Ammonia, nitrite and nitrate tests are very good
Bravo!
I know this is an older video but I am curious; Any reason why the dead leaves were not trimmed from the plants? I normally trim dead or even weak growth from my plants, but maybe you instructed him to leave them on for the plants to reclaim some nutrition? Do you happen to remember? Thanks.
It wasn't the focus, and some were trimmed afterward.
Thank you @@BentleyPascoe I appreciate the reply.
Well I made a huge newbie mistake last week. 😭
I followed the instructions of someone else to dose my algae with hydrogen peroxide from a medicine dropper. I made sure to turn off all filters and any source of additional current and went to town on my fuzzy covered plants. I had tiny bubbles filling my tank like it was a glass of fine champagne. Fast forward to the next morning. Not one, but the two tanks I did this to suddenly had water parameters shooting through the roof. I was staring some dark purple and bright red test vials. Two 20 gallon community tanks were screaming “Mayday, Mayday!!! Call 911!”
I crashed 2 tank cycles at the same time.
It’s been 4 days and I managed to not loose any critters (((knock on wood))) My ammonia is yellow, nitrite is a light blue purple and my nitrates are red-orange. Been doing lots of water changes and dosing with prime. Amazingly I haven’t been caught up in a cycle of high parameters ->water change -> Bacterial Bloom *repeat*
I’ve got a stag horn problem at the moment I’m spot dosing the tank with excel but I have thin Val which is taking the biggest hit with the stag horn and it doesn’t take too kindly to excel. So I’m trying to find that balance of killing the algae but not the Val. I don’t run co2 and have a reasonable light nothing outstanding I’ve obviously got an imbalance but I can’t put my finger on it.
Hi Bentley! Great video! I'm currently struggling with staghorn too. I've been dosing excel but it only seems to work on spot treatments. The problem I have is its mostly growing off the edges of my valisnaria, which isn't growing very well, and my slow growers, crypt parva and anubias nana petite. There's a LOT of surface area on the val. Do you think I should just remove the val, take care of the algae and then buy new val? I don't see spot treating every leaf of valisnaria as being that feasible.
That may be your best bet as Val can also melt with liquid carbon dosing.
What a great video! Thread algae is my nemesis, and I’m waiting for it to become long enough to remove with a toothbrush. Of course, would rather prevent it. I assumed it is a “too much food and light”. 10 gal. aquarium, Hygger submersible light, that should but doesn’t, cycle through a daily schedule. The colors are not adjustable. I turn the intensity down for most of an 8 hr. day. The stuff continues to spread and I’m feeling quite lost as to how to control it. Could you please suggest something?
What is your plant load in the tank? I'm wondering if the plants aren't getting what they need to fight the algae.
Bentley do you have powers 🤔? The other day I was typing asking for your help on staghorn but I don’t believe I actually posted it I just deleted it and now u have a video haha
I've learned im not dealing with bba, im dealing with staghorn; IMO triggered by modifying my fertilizer schedule and turning my air pump off during the day...
Thank you for all your hard work. I think I have blackbeard Algae. As far as the Excell goes, do you dose it for the whole amount of the tank? Also, how many days a week? Or is it just after water change? Thank you
Daily allowed maximum dose for whole tank
So is more water flow better for combating this algae as well Long term?
Typically yes
Was the kiquid carbon safe for Taiwan Bees? I have Easy Carbon.
Potentially in very small doses, but it is a risk for bees
@@BentleyPascoe i did H202 instead 🙂
Great video! So I'm having this problem with my tank and need your help!!! My problem is my wife and work..... So will you email/ talk with them to give me free time?!?😜🤣🤣🤣
I'd spot dose my staghorn issue, but I'm worried about my dwarf sagittaria and vallisneria.
Is there a safe level that won't kill these?
Less worried about my dwarf aquarium lilly and ludwigia palustris super red.
Something like 1-2ml per day most likely.
Will a tank black out help
It can, but not always. Usually that's better on the softer, simpler algae
Fertilizer is the way to go if you want algae
Hey looking for info on my tank is been running 3 weeks, first had diatom algae then as that was clearing up we now have what looks like staghorn algae.
50 gallon
2 fluval 3.0. 48" lights
Co2 injection
Fluval 306
Full of live plants
6 amano shrimp
6 blood fins
6 other tetras
4 Mickey mouse
5 Otto's
Any help would be great
So staghorn algae normally forms in areas where we don't have enough flow. This video shows exactly how to treat staghorn and make it so that your algae eaters can get rid of it. So I would just follow the advice in this video. Treat your algae and see what happens.
What did I do when I had stag horn? Does it count that I just kinda marveled at it and did nothing to try to get rid of it?
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Great video... I'm running my tank very close to what you prescribed, but I upped my lights about 15% and I now have some staghorn on my hardscape... sigh... always a challenge to get the balance just right 😇
Turned blue light to 0% and cut down iron dosing. My staghorn disappeared!!
I always think it's kinda funny when you say "light, fertilizer and carbon" bc it's kinda like saying drugs and alcohol, they are all nutrients lol. But it works out being broken into 3 parts
I kinda like staghorn so I let it grow and it eventually subsides for me which isn't what I want at that time 😂
I'm a psychopath, I will help you for free 🤣🤣 love that haha
I have staghorn , plants are not to bad but it's all over my stones and rocks, or I think it's staghorn
Why you didn't mention anything about filtration? Also nitrates are too high, it seems a consecuence of high levels of amonia because of too much population of fish... big fish in a planted acuarium = algae issues
I’ve always found staghorn algae one of the easier ones to clear up. I think beard algae is the worst!
Amano shrimp and SAEs eat staghorn readily. I just cut my light a bit, and it disappears.
My 4 amanos and 2 Chinese algae eaters (really dislike those) just sit on their lounge chairs and watch it grow. I’ve started the excel treatment and will set my aquasky lights to the recommended schedule.
Chinese algae eaters are pretty worthless, I totally agree! I’ve seen my SAEs hi to town on the stuff, though. I can see them prune it away from a crypt. Make sure you get the true ones, though. I get mine from Dan’s Fish.
staghorn and black beard algae... my two worst friends