Cladophora algae

Unlike others, this aquarium green algae looks like a moss!. It has branches, strong structures and grows close together in a clump.

Photos by Dusko Bojic.

This aquarium algae grows on hard materials such as gravels, rocks or driftwoods, it loves high-light and competes with aquarium plants for that. It can take over the ground-cover aquarium plants or fight for substrates like rocks or driftwoods which already stick by aquarium plants like anubias or java moss.

Luckily, this aquarium algae can be easily removed by hand, this algae bloom indicates the lack of CO2 in your planted tank! - you should dose it properly. Algae eaters don't like this hard algae.

In fish-only tank, this beautiful aquarium green algae is usually kept by hobbyists by giving it the growing media and strong light, the low CO2 and higher pH due to aeration are the best environment for this particular aquarium algae.