Need help with Stag Horn Algae

[leroi]

Any way of getting rid of stag horn algae aside from manually removing it?
I always find stag horn algae every week on a glosso leaf or on an anubias nana v petite leaf.
I already cut all the old leaves of the petite and also I find some algae sticking in the new leaves.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

[seetharam]

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[frothhelmet]

I am curious if anyone knows anything that will eat staghorn in an invert tank. (Please post your answer publicly :)

[leroi]

i dont know if any fish or nerite will eat staghorn
i battled my staghorn by adding an mini internal pump to promote water circulation
after that i did not see any staghorn in my tank
also i minimized disturbing my substrate

[babisfloros]

it's probably phosphates, leaking from the substrate(or other source).
water changes and manual removal inevitable
If you're running CO2 (with glosso i presume you do) boost it up a bit
and start dosing Nitrogen (seachem maybe) to maintain the N to P ratio at 25 to 1
or 20 to 1.
If your system runs well, the N addition will only boost your plant growth which consequently will eliminate
your staghorn guest.
Of course till your next algae guest's arrival.
regards!

[Shrimpnairf]

im not going to get technical, just put some more plants in there that comsume more of the co2 and plant food, fast growing plants like hornwort, any algae growth besides plants is because there is to much plant food, you agree? I cannot say whether nitrogen will localize the growth of just your plants, but rather trying to comsume all the food (plant). -- shrimpnairf

[Dusko]

Staghorn is a sign of polution and in my experience running 5 weeks with AC will help. Remove the infected leaves and check your filters (dirty? )
Improve the tanks cation exchange capacity add Zeolites.
Nothing eats this sucker algae.