--- Sajjad Lateef <sajjad_at_acm.org> wrote:
>
> I have stopped fighting algae with a passion and am
> accepting it
> as part of any aquarium's growth. I think of the
> algae attack as the
> aquarium's "teens" - where everything just is not
> right.
>
> I'd rather cure the algae with manual removal,
> addition of live
> plants, increased water changes, changes in the
> amount of light, etc. No
> bleach for me, thank you. Anyway, with time, the
> aquarium matures, the
> plants get established and the algae just goes away.
> It does not look good
> but it's natural.
>
> Sajjad
>
> On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Mark wrote:
>
> > At 8:07 PM -0400 12/21/00, Christopher Scharpf
> wrote:
> > >Hey, Dan -- that sounds like cyanobacteria. It's
> not an algae, but a bacteria.
> > >Often concentrates in areas with the brightest
> illumination (hence it
> > >appearing
> > >near the surface and at the top of floating
> plants). It's harmless (as far
> > >as I
> > >know), but unsightly. Remove as much as you can.
> Do some water changes.
> > >And then
> > >add Maracyn (an anti-biotic) to knock it out.
> >
> > I'd like to know if that works. I have a couple
> tanks infested with
> > stringy, floating algae. I'm not sure whether
> it's cyanobacteria or green
> > algae. If I can't kill it, I'm going to sterilize
> the tanks. Be careful
> > that you don't transfer the stuff between tanks.
> Wash everything in hot
> > water.
> >
>
>
>
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