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I'm having trouble with algae on some driftwood branches in my cold water tank. Does anyone have any ideas on how I can get rid of it? Its brown wispy algae - I scrub it off when I clean the tank, but it comes back within weeks. I can't have algae eating fish because the resident fish is aggressive.

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Hey Kirsten, I'm not a Prof on algae, I know it can have something to do with bacteria etc in the water..

but have you tried snails?

apple snails are good on their own, or even a couple (you just have to get rid of the eggs they lay above the water line or you'll have a bajillion in no time!)

some other species of snail procreate on their own..

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damn snails are mighty good at cleaning tanks

if you have a light use it less/take it away from a window if its in sunlight a lot

also clean water/tank as well as you can and if you want you can always try algeafix or something similar

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