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Pet Forum / Aquaria / General / March 2005Algae problem - help sought please.
I have a large well established aquarium of freshwater tropical fish. It is landscaped with bog wood and heavily planted. Lighting is by two tubes, filtration via an external Eheim and water temperature 78. Until about 6 months ago I regularly threw away huge quantities of plants which grew fast and furious - Java Fern and various Cryptos - now the only think thriving is numerous patches of a bright green hair algae each about the size of a golf ball and fast populating the bog wood and Java fern leaves, the Cryptos continue to grow with no problems. The lighting tubes have been changes and regular water changes and filter cleaning takes place. Help please - how can I rid my once beautiful aquarium of this annoying algae growth? >I have a large well established aquarium of freshwater tropical fish. It is >landscaped with bog wood and heavily planted. Lighting is by two tubes, [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >Help please - how can I rid my once beautiful aquarium of this annoying >algae growth? I have a similar problem, it was suggested I carry out a phosphate test by members of the local aquarium society, turns out that the water from my tap is high and what is in the tank off the measurement scale I'm about to invest in a phosphate filter to see if that cracks the problem, since nothing else has yet Brian try something like elimi phos, or nitra zorb in your external filter, green x is it internal >>I have a large well established aquarium of freshwater tropical fish. It >>is [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > > Brian >try something like elimi phos, or nitra zorb in your external filter, green >x is it internal [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] >> >> Brian I can't rate Green x, got plenty of it in my filter and it doesn't seem to have much of an impact Brian I use a Nitra Zorb cushion in my cannister filter. I have two, and rotate them every 5 days. When one is in the filter, the other is recharging in salt water. They keep the ppm of nitrate down to around 20. Recommend them. >>try something like elimi phos, or nitra zorb in your external filter, >>green [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] > > Brian Got any floating plants? try some,especially the fast growing varieties. They strip out Phosphate ans Nitrate like you wouldnt believe. Plant up with Hygrphilia, also fast growing and good at removine posphate/nitrate. The idea being to get your plants growing quickly in order to out compete ( is thats a word) the algae for the nutrients. The algae will then drop off very quickly. Mike Rimmer >I have a large well established aquarium of freshwater tropical fish. It is >landscaped with bog wood and heavily planted. Lighting is by two tubes, [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > Help please - how can I rid my once beautiful aquarium of this annoying > algae growth? > I have a large well established aquarium of freshwater tropical fish. > It is landscaped with bog wood and heavily planted. Lighting is by [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > Help please - how can I rid my once beautiful aquarium of this > annoying algae growth? I had this problem and I solved it by adding aqua clear to the filter. Think it's called that - it's in a bright yellow box and seems to be at all fish shops. It's supposed to remove phosphate and nitrite. doesn't work overnight but I've definitely seen a big improvement. |
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