Clearly I'm a Beginner... chill out algae.

It’s now been 2 months...

I never did solve the algae problem, the staghorn grew really long till it had to be removed by hand. It grew back, and has successfully spread all over most of the other plants too. Is it possible that rubbing the algae off the leaves spread the spores more?

It’s the same colour as the staghorn I had earlier, only now its more dense and closer together... Sort of like fuzz algae but instead mini staghorns...

I added 2 pencilfish, I should get 3 more because the male is bored and picking on all the other fish. Although, last night, I saw him get along with one of the otto’s. It’s quite suspensful.

They haven’t touched my algae, and its been close to two weeks now.
I just recently added an extra 24 watts of light, so now i have 54w... which is about 2.5w/gallon. I notice now streams of oxygen shooting out of the plants. I thought I’d try groing riccia too now with the added light.

I also added 3 Florida Flag Fish, hoping they will get to work and that algae, they’re pretty weird. So far they hang out by the red plants at the very surface of the tank and just sit there. I don’t know... they look good though.

I also added 5 more amano shrimp, which makes a total of 7 shrimp in my tank, they’re nut cases, they just go at it all day, but they’re not touching the ugly looking algae.

Why?

I think I’m going to start eating the algae, maybe they’ll all follow along. Or I’ll bottle it and sell it along with all that other expensive blue-green algae health weirdo stuff.