Help with growing alegae for Hillstream loach

[Lance-Hardwood]

I read the Martin's webpage on glowing algae and tried the "secret ingredient" as well . I did get something that looked like an algae bloom, the water turned green and the rocks were covered by a thin green layer. However, I find it odd that the layer of comes off when I touch the rock, it wasn't slimey at all and quite smelly.

I also had a container with just fertilizer, the rock had small algae growth.

The only fertilizer I had available was my wife's orchid fertilizer, I'm not sure if its safe though to grow algae for fish, can anyone confirmed that for me?

[JonasBygdemo]

The "secret ingredient" is nasty! Did you use it?

[Lance-Hardwood]

The "secret ingredient" is nasty! Did you use it?

Yes, I had one container with the secret ingredient + orchid fertilizer and one container with just orchid fertilizer.

[JonasBygdemo]

Haha okay! I'm thinking about growing some algae as well, might try it soon. By the way, Easy Life Profito gives us green spots on the glass. Maybe a slight overdose of that will do the trick?