I currently have a 6gal planted...got 10 catfish in it...and still got green algae growing on the leaves of my plants.

Lighting: 2 X 15w 6500K Tubes
Ferts: Seras Floria (liquid) + DIY CO2 + Sera Root Tablets
Fish: BN, plecs, sparkling gouramis, guppies + 2 SAE

Lighting in on from 9am to midnite (i think this is too much)

Reducing the lighting, but it seems my fish arnt touching the algae except my 2 SAEs.

Any help on this lame problem?

Regards
Mango :computerpunch:

This may come as a shock, but most species of pleco are useless and eating algae! The best in my experience is a little critter called the rubbernose pleco. Gold nuggets do a little bit, so do ottos (but they eat your plants as well) but the best is the siamese algae eater (true flying fox).

Other algae munchers include the american flag fish and pearl gourami (although the gourtami could get too big for the tank)

The SAEs i got are going about their job eating the algae...bn are sort of doing that... The algae on the ornaments are nice. but the plants...errr...want them to be green...but not algae green...

Big headache...ar!!

Have you tried making your lighting sparodic? So on for 30minutes, off for 10, on for an hour, off for 2 hours, all very random and stuf... Apparently algae can't handle it, but plants can - so your algae ends up dying.

When I had algae, I did the weird lighting, go some SAEs, got some apple snails and removed algae where I could - it seemed to fix it.

Good luck. :)

First of all I think your tank is over-socked, way over stocked...poor fish.
Read my algae and algae eaters guide, the link is my sig. www.aquariumpoetry.blogspot.com

Regards, Dusko.