Staghorn? I’m working excessive CO2 and closely planted. Any secure method to take away it with out harming shrimp?

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  1. Targeted hydrogen peroxide or excel dosing. Also prune it out aggressively.

  2. Ammonia: 0
    NO2: 0
    NO3: ~5
    pH: ~6.8
    8 hours of light per day

    Running a 10g with pressurized CO2. Planted with Alternanthera, lots of Crypts, Monte Carlo. Has a large cherry shrimp colony.

    Any safe ways to treat the algae? I’ve tried limiting the lighting down to 6 hours but nothing changed. I’ve heard Excel Flourish might work, but I’m not sure if anyone’s had experience with it. This stuff is so hard to manually remove.

  3. Excel might work, I’ve never had great results and it’s a relatively harsh and expensive chemical. Some people swear by it though. I found the margin of error is wider with hydrogen peroxide, it’s cheaper, it works more reliably, and you can get it directly on fish/inverts without worrying too much about it.

    You can spot-treat with a syringe, but depending on the situation I have also drained a tank and misted it over plants, or “painted” the algae with a brush (some plants are sensitive to direct exposure so misting might not work well for them). Give it about a minute to site then refill and do a large water change.

    If spot treating you want to turn off pumps and filters so there is no water flow and do it after the lights have been or for at least an hour or so.

    For preventative maintenance the algae slows/recedes when plants are in optimal conditions. As counter intuitive as it seems, it shows up more in my tank when I’ve forgotten to fertilizer and my surface plants are blocking too much light.

    Other reproduced experiments have seen it recede when CO2 and phosphates are increased.

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