have you ever wanted an underwater world inside your home where you have colorful fish swimming
in clear water inside an aquatic garden an underwater paradise hi everyone colin here
and welcome back to another aquarium video so look planted aquarium really does provide
all the things of having a wonderful little underwater world inside your home
having a balance of fish and plants can look just amazing but there are things that can go wrong
today we're looking at brown algae and yes everyone will usually get it in the
beginning of every tank starting up it's one of the first life forms that seems to colonize
an aquarium brown algae as a fine dust just seems to settle on everything rocks plants on the glass
and although brown algae is annoying it is pretty easily fixed it's not the worst algae to have
in general we control algae in a number of different ways and with water changing in
particular lots of new fresh water fast growing plants i use a lot of indian fern in my aquariums
algae eating fish and these are two of the best bristlenose catfish and siamese algae eaters
the good cleanup crew and good filtration water changes keeps a nice healthy balance in the tank
but that balance can be thrown out in a whole range of different ways
and even as this tank's been going a long time it's been doing really well
a few things have happened to it i took out a lot of plants all at once
i've got these emperor tetras going crazy breeding and my bristlenose catfish male passed away
so pretty quickly the balance got thrown out and brown algae appeared
brown algae appeared almost everywhere but in small amounts it's quite a fine dusting
that the oldest leaves do seem to have the worst and the the new fresh leaves have none
so it's sort of a bit all over the place but not to worry the tank itself is still
in good condition the tank is still healthy so i'm not worried by the brown algae being there
and there's a number of steps i'll be taking which will make it disappear so here we go
these are the things that we'll be doing to reduce the brown algae and get the tank back to balance
another great algae eating fish
my little tank of Endlers livebearers, no brown algae in here
now this tank will get back to balance and back to being
in nice condition pretty soon the indian fern that i do have will grow back pretty fast
the algae eaters will get back in control and uh don't panic this will all be okay
so there's a few uh tips for you um but remember that balance does require some patience
and usually a few weeks have to go by before things usually
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