Algae out of CONTROL! Help!
I have a 20 gallon tank set up with artificial plants and a 20-25 HOB filter. I have ONE puffer in there that is about an inch long. I have tried for months to control the algae in this tank to no avail. It is not in the sunlight or near any additional artificial light. It has a standard fluorescent light on it that came with the tank. Nothing special. However from doing a complete scrub down in the matter of a week algae is starting to show again in the tank. I am at a loss. I don't know what to do to control it and I'm about ready to give up and find the fish a new home because the maintenance is out of control. I have 6 other tanks and they have no algae problems at all. It baffles me. It's clearly not in the tap water obviously, Or the other tanks would be the same. Does anyone have any advice on what to do? I even bought a brand new filter thinking maybe I couldn't get the pick up tube or the bio-filter cleared or something and it came back just as equally.
I have a 20 gallon tank set up with artificial plants and a 20-25 HOB filter. I have ONE puffer in there that is about an inch long. I have tried for months to control the algae in this tank to no avail. It is not in the sunlight or near any additional artificial light. It has a standard fluorescent light on it that came with the tank. Nothing special. However from doing a complete scrub down in the matter of a week algae is starting to show again in the tank. I am at a loss. I don't know what to do to control it and I'm about ready to give up and find the fish a new home because the maintenance is out of control. I have 6 other tanks and they have no algae problems at all. It baffles me. It's clearly not in the tap water obviously, Or the other tanks would be the same. Does anyone have any advice on what to do? I even bought a brand new filter thinking maybe I couldn't get the pick up tube or the bio-filter cleared or something and it came back just as equally.