Last Friday I added some plants to my 10 gallon tank. I have now 30 watts with CO2 and a bunch of plants. Well today I noticed some algae starting to grow on the front glass. I added no fertilizers yet. I have the following plants:
2 Anubias Nana (growing new leaves already)
7 Rotala Magenta (looks like it's dying already)
Java Fern (on a big piece of driftwood)
3 Pigmy Chain Sword
15 Corkscrew Val (starting to send runners already)
Since I figured I didn't have enough plants I went out and bought some more jungle vals and some other kind of bunched plant. I'm using flourite for the substrate and the lights are on for about 12 hours a day. I plan on getting some oto cats, cherry shrimp, and malaysian trumpt snails soon but I thought having all these plants would prevent the algae. I'm also running out of room to plant the plants so any advice would be good for both the algae and the rotala. I have not done any water changes yet since I started the tank on the 22nd of January. I also added some blackwater extract if that has any usfulness since I am putting the neons in. Thanks for anything you can give.
2 Anubias Nana (growing new leaves already)
7 Rotala Magenta (looks like it's dying already)
Java Fern (on a big piece of driftwood)
3 Pigmy Chain Sword
15 Corkscrew Val (starting to send runners already)
Since I figured I didn't have enough plants I went out and bought some more jungle vals and some other kind of bunched plant. I'm using flourite for the substrate and the lights are on for about 12 hours a day. I plan on getting some oto cats, cherry shrimp, and malaysian trumpt snails soon but I thought having all these plants would prevent the algae. I'm also running out of room to plant the plants so any advice would be good for both the algae and the rotala. I have not done any water changes yet since I started the tank on the 22nd of January. I also added some blackwater extract if that has any usfulness since I am putting the neons in. Thanks for anything you can give.