how do i promote algae growth in my tanks?

Question

i want to know had to promote its growth not get rid of it i leave my light on 12 hours i dont overfeed for fear of fishes health what else should i do

the algae is for my snails and theres already water plants in there

i add tetra-plant fetilizer every week since last week

Answer 1

Most aquarists would love to give you some from their tanks!

The things algae needs to grow are light and nutrients. You seem to have the light portion covered by having your tank light on for 12 hours, although some lights have better wavelengths for photosynthesis than others. You may not have enough nutrients in your water to promote good algae growth. The nutrients algae needs are nitrate (which your tank should already provide) and phosphorous (which you might be lacking).

Do you use tapwater in your tank? Tapwater usually has a small amount of phosphorous. You can check with your water provider to see if it's in yours. If not, you may need to add it to the tank. There are fertilizers made for use in an aquarium, and without aquatic plants, algae would be the only thing that could make use of it. You could also reduce the amount or frequency of your water changes for a while to produce the same effect.

Answer 2

most likely if the snails are doing fine than you already have algae in the tank you dont want an excessive algae bloom. Just cause you cant see it doesnt mean it isnt there. if there is no excessive algae and the snails seem happy crawling all over the tank that means they are doing thier job. the point of snails and algae eaters is to keep unsightly algae in line. if you get excessive algae that will lead to problems and make you tank look gross and becomes very hard to keep clean. what you are doing now is fine just keep it up and all you snails will be happy as well as your fish.

Answer 3

So far your doing good. Do you have an algae eater in it? Or snails? If so, take these out. Put in some water plants and and feed the fish twice a day so they will be less tempeted to eat algae.

Answer 4

Most pet stores have and algae supplement used mostly for algae eating fish, but when you use a supplement it creates a pretty large amount of algae. I'm sure that would work. Hope I helped.

Answer 5

yeah i think of your doing each and every thing perfect and should no longer do something, yet once you particularly need to what I do is I used flourish excel, it particularly is a chemical that enables vegetation improve and that i try this for my plecostomus by using fact I even have 2, yet once you place too lots in it could kill your fish in spite of the undeniable fact that it reproduces algae lots . I additionally shop the sunshine on for 6 30 Intel 9 30 yet I supply them and hour or 2 throughout the time of lunch so as that they have got a darkness faze so it resembles them being in coloration or something like that yet easy does help lots. in spite of the undeniable fact that it particularly is needed in case you are attempting this to do much less then the bottle does by using fact the chemical isn't good for fish whilst there is too lots so do much less possibly 0.5 of what it tells you or much less.

Answer 6

increase the oxygen and increase the amount of natural sunlight.