Help in picking Algae

[TheNomadRhodes]

Hello every one, I was wondering what are the best types of Algae to help blast Nitrates and other nasty things out of your water, I have a ton of links with lots of types of Algae and seagrass but I dont know what to buy... Thanks a bunch

 

[conformity]

Cheatomorpha is an all around favorite. I've read that some Caulerpa's are preferred, but it may go sexual cause some problems.
I'm assuming that you have/are going to set up a new tank. You will be surprised on the variety of algae that pop up after a tank cycles and starts to mature. All in all I say use Cheatomorpha, it both grows easy and fast. additionally most of the time you can get it free from local aquarists.

 

[TheNomadRhodes]

My tank is about two years old I had cheato in my fuge and it grew like
like a weed from hell, but my Nitrates stayed high and then about 2 months ago it turned dark green all most black in color and started dieing off now I have but a hand full left. I got some stuff from my LFS that looks like a fern thats starting to grow but my cheato is still just dieing off so I thought maybe cheato wasn't as good of a choice as I had thought it was.