Hi all,

I posted earlier about trying to clear out a cloudy tank... Anyway, I did
some minor regimen and now the tank is clear.. so it seems like the
cloudiness was more of an algae thing and not a so much of a bacterial
thing. This is what I did:

1. started to add Flourish Excel 2-3x week
2. started to be more routine about adding Flourish 2x week
3. started to add Flourish Iron whenever I add Flourish
4. reduced the amount of natural lighting (not completely out, but closed
some of the shades)

now, the cloudy water is gone, plants look great... but on high-brightness
area, I have what seems to be combination of beard algae (dense short, furry
stuff), thread algae (something green, thin, and long), and tufts of brown
something (looks like a miniature stringy foxtail but it's more brown than
green).

the brown something seems under control (doesn't grow much), but the beard
and the thin long algaes cover the brightly lit leaves rather quickly... so
what does this mean? am I giving too much or too less of something?

brightly lit = leaves that are closest to the lamp.. such as long leaves of
the apongeton boivianus, older sword leaves, etc

also, there were bunch of short (3mm), singlet strands of green filamental
algae growing sparsely on one of the tank walls, so I scraped it out (the
otos didn't seem like they were eating it, and it was getting a bit
unsighly..). I don't know what algae that was.

linda