Reply With QuoteManual remover is still the best method or trim the affected plants with BBA.
Hi All,
I will like to know if there is any way to get rid of BBA? I have cherry shrimps ,crs and some fishes in the tank..
What will be a safe way to my livestock?
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Manual remover is still the best method or trim the affected plants with BBA.
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How bad is the condition? Where are they growing?
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BBA can be removed by using Flourish Excel (Seachem). U need to change tank water like 3-4 days once and keep on using Flourish Excel. It help me to clear BBA well.
if you have pressurized CO2 then bump up the bubble rate a bit to get higher concentration of Co2 in the water. this will help in reducing it. you will still have to cut and remove the affected parts. for anubias a bleach dip is pretty effective. excel can also be used to treat it but i dont know what effect (overdose of excel) will have on your shrimps.
Just get a syringe or eye dropper and blow the excel at the BBA. Mix it down with some aquarium or RO water if you're running a small tank and can't use much. We've safely double dosed the stuff with yamato shrimp; my fiance did it this morning, in fact. From the research papers I've read, a double dose of excel (wattered down glutaraldehyde) is beneficial to any fish, plus daphnia that i've heard of it being been tested on. It's even used off-label to increased hatch rates in trout and some salt water species.
You may want to check your fert regimen, CO2 and light. Is there a nutrient that you might be adding too little of? Any fast growth of a plant with strange nutrient demands? Not quite enough light? Has the CO2 been fluctuating? Anything limiting growth (and therefor CO2 uptake levels) or changing the CO2 levels directly can cause BBA from what I understand.
-Philosophos
Last edited by Philosophos; 16th Mar 2009 at 06:47.
Hi Philosophos, would you mind post the link of the glutaraldehyde research your are talking about? I'm interested to understand more on glutaraldehyde. Thanks you.
This is the bit of information I found a couple days ago. For me it's pretty much a given that unless a species is known to be sensitive, a double dose of excel helps in an aquarium most of the time.
http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/2005/20050003.pdf - trout, daphnia and algae results. The trout had higher survival and hatch rates, as well as the daphnea.
http://books.google.com/books?id=--x...sec=frontcover - page 268 has references to its use in marine aquaculture.
http://books.google.com/books?id=tFP...ummary_r&cad=0 - page 118 mentions it as a pretty broad-based disinfectant in high concentrations. I'm guessing in lower concentrations it reduces the doubling time of bacteria that commonly grow on eggs, and the outside of fish.
The question in my mind is why it is not allowed under US regulation (according to wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glutaraldehyde ) to be marketed a biocide for algae.
After reading the MSDS on this stuff, I'm pretty sure that I'll be buying excel rather than mixing my own: http://www.tedpella.com/msds_html/18411msd.htm
-Philosophos
Last edited by Philosophos; 16th Mar 2009 at 20:42.
The first link is broken, but the other are working. Thank you for the link, very good and interesting information in there.
Try copying and pasting the URL in to your browser. It works that way, but not if clicked on directly. If that doesn't work, the title is, "Chronic toxicity of glutaraldehyde: differential sensitivity of three freshwater organisms" and you should be able to find it googling. I'm glad the other two worked and were of some use.
-Philosophos
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