Got round to sorting my tank out today. I posted a while back about a hair algae problem. I'm too ashamed to post a 'before' pic, I really let it get bad! But the algae completely took over, it was inches long, on all the plants, ornaments, filter, everything!
Today went to Maidenhead Aquatics in Grantham, first time I've been, they seem to have a good selection of stuff and very friendly and helpful. So bought some new plants and a new filter, wanted to replace my internal one for an external one anyway as it took up so much room! Binned virtually everything that was in the tank to start fresh.
So done a 50% water change along with it all, scrubbed the glass, set up the new filter and put the new plants in, along with soaking the bogwood in hot water all day to get the worst of the staining out. End result was definitely an improvement.
As advised on here a few weeks back, I'll be doing partial weekly water changes, and also getting some new lighting tubes to hopefully keep on top of the algae in future.