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Here is a picture of some BBA that turned white 3 days after I spot treated with Excel. It was very thick, black and bushy before but now its turned completely white and starting to disintegrate

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If you remove Co2, you should either lower your light intensity or raise the light higher up to increase the distance between the plants and the fixture. For one of my 12g long tanks, I was unable to raise the light or change intensity with my t5 fixture so I used a sheet of window mesh screen and attached it to the fixture to block out some intensity. This tank used to be plagued with hair algae but after covering the intensity with the window screen, I wouldnt be able to grow algae if I wanted to. The tank only has mini xmas moss, buce and dwarf hairgrass e. belem in it, everything has been growing very nicely for the past 6 months. I used to have Co2 in this tank but I stopped since adding CRS, still no algae after 3 months. The plants grow a little slower but everything is green and healthy with no signs of algae. I perform a 20% water change every month with RODI water remineralized with SS GH+. As for the BBA.. Spot treatment with Excel has worked for me. I use glutaraldehyde instead of Excel though since its more than double the concentration at a fraction of the price. During water changes, I take the affected plants/decorations out of the tank and drip glutaraldehyde onto the BBA with a syringe. The algae will turn light grey to almost white and die off. I then try to manually remove as much as possible which is easier when the algae dies. Be careful though because this can kill your plants; it turned my hair algae infested moss white. The moss bounces back pretty quickly though so I don't mind, as long as the algae dies. Once the algae is gone, I concentrate on preventing new growth and wait for the affected plants to make a come back. Goodluck, its an ongoing battle. You want to balance your lighting, Co2, and fertilizing to really prevent outbreaks. If you don't have ferts or Co2, you should be using minimal amount of light to grow the plants. More is not always better!

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