Re: NANFA-- stupid algae removal tricks...

Al G Eaton (sege7_2000_at_yahoo.com)
Fri, 22 Dec 2000 06:27:14 -0800 (PST)

There are exotic fish and native fish that are very
good at removing some types of algae.... eg the
wonderful and somewhat lowly american flagfish eats
hair algae so well it will eradicate it in a short
time. For algae on your rocks you might try a central
stoneroller...their mouthparts are made for rasping
algae off rocks.... for brush algae nothing beats the
siamese algae eater....I have four of these and they
constantly graze on my plants and ornaments removing
algae only they can see.

--- 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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