Need advice help on getting rid of BBA...

[exotic]

hi bros... really need you all to give me advice on getting rid of those bba...please help me....

[Shadow]

Trimp the infected area, up your CO2. You can also use excell for temporary solution. Inject excel using syringe directly to the BBA for few days.

[benny]

exotic,

Firstly, please post in the correct section. It should go to Fertilisation & Algae instead of plant tank since you are not discussing about any plant in particular. I will help you shift the thread there.

If you don't give proper information about your tank, setup, equipment, plants and fauna, how are people going to give you any useful comments? Can't expect us to guess what you have right?

For a start, why don't you read this, then do a quick search to see if anyone else have the same situation as you and what were the previous comments given.

Cheers,

[Aeon]

Balance your nutrients but don't limit them. You don't fight the algae but your plants do. Looks at your plants are they suffering from any form of nutrient deficiency?

Trim away affected plants. Those on rocks and hardware, remove with fingers. Up your CO2. If needed, replant to maintain plant mass. Do water changes more often.

[daveteogh]

I had BBA before... I continue to pump in CO2... change 50% water... reduce the lighting hours... let it stablise.

The BAA just die and drop off from my plants.

[exotic]

but i have shrimps inside.. will it harm my shrimps???
change 50% of water weekly???

[daveteogh]

I am not sure about the shrimps... but I think shrimps are sensitive to water parameters and too much changes isn't good.

I change 50% weekly for 3 weeks... then it somehow stable down and the BBA just die.

I will suggest you lower the hours of lighting and change <50% water and monitor the condition. If it is stable, BBA has no room to survive.

Good luck.

Another way is like what the bros mentioned... trim away the affected leaves... but I can't bear to cut them but now my problem is solved...

[exotic]

thanks bro.... now i cut down on light...i cant change the water that much but i will change 30% of it every two days...then see how???? will let you know how thing goes...thanks for the advice...

other thing i pump up the co2 to 7 or 8 bps...it is ok????

[Shadow]

how big is your tank? and how good is your difuser or reactor? if you have small tank and all the CO2 completly disolved, then you might end up killing your shrimps.

[exotic]

hi bro...my tank is 3 feet by 1.5 feet height also 1.5 feet... water i think ard 200 lilters...light 120 watt... using those cheap diffuser.... but how do you all see the co2 is right or too much...????

[Shadow]

Unless you are using ADA soil, you can use the pH vs kH table to determine your CO2 ppm. ADA have a property that lower pH and kH. There was a thread at AQ on how to determine the CO2 ppm on ADA soil tank. If I'm not mistaken it was by measuring the pH before and during CO2 injection. The pH different must at certain number, can’t remember what is that.

I guest for 200L it might be OK, my 50L tank is with 2 bps and fully dissolved. It was densely planted though.

[exotic]

thanks.man