My New Experiment to rid BBA Easily?!!

**simontay78** · 7th Sep 2008, 23:16

Ok, My 2 feet fish tank is infected with reddish hairy BBA EVERYWHERE arhhhh

and I had ignored it at first but finally unable to stand it any longer so I tried ways to remove them but not very successful.

I had tried trimming, excel overdose, SAE, Yamato...but not very efficient...haha.

I have a seperate 2 feet cherry shrimp tank and I am in the process of checking how fast they can clean up BBA by planting those infected plants right into the cherry tank!!!

Today is day one

More photos here.

**CK Yeo** · 8th Sep 2008, 07:52

Those are staghorn but they are pretty tough too.

ck

**antitrust** · 8th Sep 2008, 08:27

Originally Posted by simontay78

I have a seperate 2 feet cherry shrimp tank and I am in the process of checking how fast they can clean up BBA by planting those infected plants right into the cherry tank!!!

wow bro, you're quite brave! i would introduce the cherry shrimps to the tank with BBA instead of the other way round! haha.

hope the BBA doesn't infect your cherry tank too!

**simontay78** · 8th Sep 2008, 14:01

The fish tank is filled with fishes with big mouths, the cherry shrimps are giving birth everywhere....dun want to let the fish get free "meal" hehe

**simontay78** · 8th Sep 2008, 14:03

Originally Posted by antitrust

wow bro, you're quite brave! i would introduce the cherry shrimps to the tank with BBA instead of the other way round! haha.

hope the BBA doesn't infect your cherry tank too!

By the way, my shrimp tanks is filled with at least one hundred shrimps and I purposely starve them for 1 day today...hee see how...

**feide** · 8th Sep 2008, 16:25

wow, i though your cherry shrimps were feasting on tubifex worms on the first sight

**simontay78** · 8th Sep 2008, 17:14

Apparently I thought they look like the tubifex worms too!! wahaha

**barmby** · 8th Sep 2008, 17:34

Originally Posted by simontay78

T , the cherry shrimps are giving birth everywhere...

You are so blessed..

**hann** · 8th Sep 2008, 21:29

Does staghorn spread oso? I noticed that they are at certain plants only and some of these plants are fast growing one.

**Shadow** · 8th Sep 2008, 22:50

all algae can spread of course. Staghorn is prity hard algae, cherry probably unable to cut it

**simontay78** · 9th Sep 2008, 00:11

Day 2 of the experiment with hundreds of hungry Cherry Shrimps!

Not 100% success yet!! Still ongoing experiment!

More photos here!

**adeguay** · 9th Sep 2008, 10:36

very scary to see 100 cherry shrimp inside. Look like big red ants.

Do you do water change?

**simontay78** · 9th Sep 2008, 10:39

I do water change when the water turns yellow and the sediments below filled with excess food stuff...that takes about 1 month interval

Previously very yellowish....i did 80% water change...

**antitrust** · 9th Sep 2008, 15:46

i see that your tank is infested with seed shrimps too!

**simontay78** · 9th Sep 2008, 16:32

Yeahhhh...how to get rid of them??

**bryan65** · 10th Sep 2008, 10:33

Originally Posted by simontay78

Yeahhhh...how to get rid of them??

Read this http://www.aquaticquotient.com/forum...ad.php?t=43674

**simontay78** · 10th Sep 2008, 17:05

I had bought 5 of those fishes that eat the seed shrimps...but they don't seems to eat leh...maybe I bought the wrong ones...haiz.

**corywink** · 11th Sep 2008, 07:23

your bba has turned pink? That means it's dead. This is what happened when I dipped some anubias with a lot of bba into a weak bleach solution, this turned the bba pink, and the one small SAE I bought for the job cleaned it up easily. If the bba is black/alive then the SAE doesn't touch it.