Plant ID me

So it seems that my planted tank is having unexpected guests over every time I closely look over it and now I need some help. I'm pretty sure is is algae of some sort because it only attaches to something that is dieing/dead leafs.

By the way we're looking at the darker green portion of the plant (the thing that looks like hair)

That would be hair algae. The best tools to remove it are either a new tooth brush or bottle brush just twirl it about and get the algae wrapped on it.

Hair algae is SW. This is FW

There is a FW hair algae, I have it in Fred's tank..... Its a pain, good luck

looks like clado to me

yea it's def. hair algae.. hate them. remove as much as you can manually, lower light time, less food, and wait...

or get some siamese algae eaters or do excel spot on treatments.

just het some sizzors or clippers to cut that hair

No that wont help a bit! all the clippings would just help it spread!

lol

The weird thing is that when it attaches to a leaf, the leaf dies within a week or so. So I've been plucking out the "dead" ones. I put my pleco back in(took him out because he ate 3 blood worm cubes within a min) and he's somewhat eating the hair algae. It looks less but who knows!

good luck with the pleco! hopfully hell eat it all!!
throw a cpl more in their if they lik it!

Yeah I put in another one and so far, they've been leaving a big trail of green poo everywhere.

haha wack!!its a planted tank right?

Yeah, starting to look like a jungle. Pics will come later.

isnt poo good for the plants though?
kool lets c em.....

Poo is good to some extent. It is a fertilizer but I already have enough of that from my substrate. I'm not worried about co2 and lighting but it all works out!

i would say just keep a good filter in their for he pleco poop!! another filter couldnt hurt!.........would it? lol dont know much bout planted tanks Yet!!!

I have 2 LARGE sponge filters rated up to 80gallon ea so I have 3x the filtration power the tank needs.

what size tank is it?

55g haha. Im gonna need to trim the plants before the discus get caught in the plants (like my balloon molly did and died)

AWW Lame!!!! yeah u gotta watch that!
hey u think i would be able to mixe my discuss with my rams?

Of course! Rams n discus have the same water requirements.

Lol, Java moss is fun to grow! This isnt....

Sweet!!!!!! ima get a tank started for em both!
rite now i have em separated