Algae all of the sudden

[Alfredomeinhardt]

I have a 60 gallon AIO tank that has been up for about 8 months.

I struggle a little bit with the parameters but now they all seem to be stable.

The water has been crystal clear all the time. I’m running a UV sterilizer and a roller mat and it has been great.

A couple of weeks ago I introduced a Golden head goby and ai noticed the water started have suspended particles, which I assumed was caused by the goby sand sifting.

The problem now is that I started to have a lot of brown algae all over the place and sludge on the cables and pumps, which I didn’t have before.

Any suggestions?

 

[RabidDragon]

pictures in white light and your test results is going to help a lot to encourage responces...

 

[Alfredomeinhardt]

 

[Alfredomeinhardt]

I’ll send a pic shortly

 

[Alfredomeinhardt]

 

[Alfredomeinhardt]

 

[Alfredomeinhardt]

 

[winzig]

Natural progression it will pass eventually

 

[RabidDragon]

agreed, and adding a bottle of mixed benifitial bacteria and some mixed culture of 'pods/phytoplankton would likely help this along.
something like:
Dr. Tim's Aquatics Eco-Balance Probiotic Bacteria

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

I would get a filter pad or some mechanical filtration, thats a lot of debris flying around inside the tank.
I would get more snails and algae grzers, I think I saw only a couple of snails.

 

[Alfredomeinhardt]

Thanks I will try that.