Algae help plz!

Okay today I transfered my lil 3 week seedling into a white bucket. I found a lot of algae in my 6 gal. blue bucket, where minimal to no light was allowed to enter.

Now that my plant is in a white bucket I can clearly see my nutes on the inside, meaning there is obviously light reaching the nutes. I was wondering, will this cause excessive growth of algae?

Will it be fine as is, as long as I replace nutes every week or so, or should I clean algae infested blue bucket, and replace?

I would clean the blue one and paint the outside black put the seedlings in that and then clean and paint the white one too.

change your water more often can't hurt

What do you mean you can see your nutes? Through the bucket? What kind of nutes can you see through a white bucket? I had some algae in the bottom of my seedlings clear cups, when I transplanted into 6 inch clay pots it ceased. Cut off the light and the algae will die off. You could even just wrap the outside in some electrical tape, then you wouldn't have to mess with paint or transplanting.

Ohh, well my nutes turn the water a lemonade color. The light illuminates the water, and I can see a yellowish glow on the outside.

use a super thick lawn style black trash bag to line the inside of the bucket with before you add the nutes..this should block out the light.. then paint the top with krylon plastic paint black

I think I'm going to go ahead and spray this bucket black. From now on I'll just buy black buckets tho. Thanks everyone.

itzCESAR* said:

I think I'm going to go ahead and spray this bucket black. From now on I'll just buy black buckets tho. Thanks everyone.

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this will help but alot of times with moving things about the paint scrapes off and dosnt stick that well , so thats why i suggested the liner... hey best of luck to ya hope your grow excedes you expectation..

Hmmmm, you have a point. Thanks again to everyone. I think I get the gist now.

vaporking said:

use a super thick lawn style black trash bag to line the inside of the bucket with before you add the nutes..this should block out the light.. then paint the top with krylon plastic paint black

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+Rep I never would have thought of that