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Posted by Misty on March 28, 2005, 12:56 pm
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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?
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Posted by Spindoctor on March 28, 2005, 1:52 pm
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On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:56:37 GMT, "Misty"
>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 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
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Posted by Mike Rimmer on March 30, 2005, 9:43 am
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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,
>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?
>
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Posted by Dee on March 31, 2005, 10:53 am
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> 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 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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>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?
>