Just back from the fishy shop... We now have three ikle algae eaters who will help control the problem...
Algae needs three things... water, some unpornouncable thing in tap water and light... he said leave lights off and it will go.. I said what even the green bits that are on glass and he said yes... algae is live plant..
Also if you have lots of live plants in the tank then the algae cant compete.. but he conceded a tank full of live plants is harder to keep than fish
So plan now is to keep lights off other than an hr or so at night and so algae dies and have the three algae eaters to keep on top of it..
oh yeagh.....and fins crossed.....
