I am kinda of having a algae prob, anyone now how they are caused?

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mainly high nitrates and increases of other micro nutrients, and of course, the classic to much light doesn't help, usually occur with a high fish density, just got to use an algae scraper to remove as much as possible from the viewing glass (front pane)

cichlids seem to like picking through filamentous algae, and it only looks a bit unsightly, you only have to worry if you have live plants and it takes hold on the leaves

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high nitrates, high phosphate, too much light. Main causes are usually too much light and over feeding

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yup, i think the things mike said are being done alot, light is usualy 24/7, but am getting a plug in timer to turn of after 10-14 hours, and my mum also feeds them, as she thinks the don't get enough, but they do, and then i feel guilty for underfeeding them...when i am not. lol
Have also rea aranged my tank, so they aint as many rocks, as i went ott before, i have like a brown tuffa rock, a couple, and a big piece, so all the scaredy cat fish are ok know, and the big fish are well, the pink has its space, and the other two just swim around, beecause there is alot of open space now! also looks absulutly great!and clean, now algae in the tank, except the odd cm or so, on the back.

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you already know how the are caused lol. So im gonna give you some solutions:

1) water snails... but they eat plants too
2) plecs, other suckers... but they eat plants to, and some plecs can get VERY large
3) glass scraper... only cleans the glass

thats about it. haha... i wouldnt suggest using chemicles for algea... i dont think it is worth the risk.

plecos cause more problems than they solve. The majority of people do not have a tank big enough for a pleco.

Snails would be killed in a malawi tank, so thats not gonna work.

But yeah the algae scraper is all good lol.

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you can get mini plecs, haha :P

only mini members of the plec family I can think of off the top of my headd are Dwarf Panaque, and they are in no way a begginers fish, and they are quite pricey

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hong kong plec?

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tailwhip plec?

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