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Now that's a contest that I'll have a chance of winning!!
Cheers,
furry plant grower
There's this contest on APC. After looking at it, makes a lot of people feel much better when the dreaded enemy knocks when we're at our lowest -- busiest and most stressed period.
Link here: http://www.aquaticplantcentral.com/f...ns-zapins.html
Warm regards,
Lawrence Lee
brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or praiseworthy--think about such things.
Philippians 4:8
Now that's a contest that I'll have a chance of winning!!
Cheers,
I have dwarf cichlids in my tanks! Do you?
for once we able to appreciate the dreadful thing,!
can consider taking part to showcase mine too
The Happiest of people don't neccessary have the best of everything;
they just make the most of everything that comes along their way
When will there be 25 letters in the alphabets?
I am quite sure of that, Benny, when I have seen it with my own eyes.Originally Posted by benny
Now that's a contest that I'll have a chance of winning!!
Cheers,
koah fong
Juggler's tanks
Wow! It's really a horrible sight! I only managed to glance through the first page and didn't feel well to proceed on...Gosh!!
My "planted" discus tank could easily be a winner in this competition, it is so bad that I don't even dare to take any picture.
There are probably at least three dreaded species of algae thriving inside. Many bundles of black beard algae clinging to the side and rear glass surfaces. A nice thick coat of brown algae suffocating my Taiwanesse moss and plants. The front glass surface has a healthy film of green algae.
I'm amazed given such condition that your discus are still surviving
Yes, the disucs is surviving but stunted, looks like it has worms, but deworming didn't seem to help.
I will be transferring it out soon to a spare tank so that I can start "harvesting" the algae more aggressively.
I guess shrimps would love your tank!
I had several wood shrimps in there before, survived a few weeks, then all "disappeared".
I was thinking of otos and/or other algae eating fishes, but I guess it may be easier to just clean up and reset this setup (just like a badly messed up MS Windows OS!).
yup. agree. I can't imagine how bad is your tank but from your reply, looks like a serious 'corruption of OS' haha!. Got to scrub your tank real clean
Not only elbow grease, but I will have to resort to chemical warfare as well to ensure that the algae are totally annihilated; I am still deciding between the cheaper/messier/staining solution (KMnO5) or the more expensive/cleaner/non-staining solution (H2O2).
i guess it all boils down to how big your tank it is, if too big a tank, manual removal will definitely build up your muscles
While shopping for frozen bloodworm, I picked up 6 SAE to test the effectiveness of this algae cleaning crew.
Dumped them into this horrendously algae infected tank, and they started work immediately despite the shock of a new environment.
I deicded to recruit more members, so dropped by neighbourhood LFS to get another 6 SAE and 10 golden AE.
If this plan works, I may start an algae cleaning army platoon.
The juggling apprentice fish
Erm... This thread is on the horrific algae contest, no?
Read me! :bigsmile: http://justikanz.blogspot.com/
I'm crypt collecting... Starting cheap, now have Cryptocoryne beckettii, C.beckettii var petchii, C.crispatula var.balansae, C.griffithii(Melted!), C.nurii, C.parva, C.pygmaea(Melted!
Oh, juggling is hard work, man!...
Give chance lah; that tank is so horribly infected that I am too embarassed to even look at it!
Then again, I feel the pain if I throw away the plants, so this is a last ditch efffort in saving whatever fauna I can.
HAHAHAHAH
I just laughed till I cried as I went through that thread;
Its like the anti-ADA contest, or an aquatic 'faces of death' kind of gallery
I thought a well grown algae farm looks like those alien landscapes imagined in 80s sci-fi films.
The juggling apprentice fish
Come to think of it, it can be quite an achievement to attain some of the algae growth in the tanks presented...
I mean, won't they be doing something to try to stop it or remove the algae as soon as the problems appear?
Read me! :bigsmile: http://justikanz.blogspot.com/
I'm crypt collecting... Starting cheap, now have Cryptocoryne beckettii, C.beckettii var petchii, C.crispatula var.balansae, C.griffithii(Melted!
Oh, juggling is hard work, man!...
*sigh* I can't vouch for others. In my case, the more effort I put in to stop the algae growth, the more terrifying the effects. Plants' growth become stunted, and the algae bloom. Worse still more varieties of algae appeared!
Anyway, 27 hours into the algae cleaning crew's effort, there seems to be slight improvement in halting the algae bloom.
It has been a week since my algae cleaning crew reported for duties. I cheated with a heavy dosing of 3% hydrogen peroxide. Most of the green algae has since disappeared leaving only the bushes of BBA. Unfortunately, most of the remnant plants also seem to be dying if not dead.
The fishes seem to be doing well, so I transferred some angelfishes to this tank and moved the discus to another tank.
I guess I may have disqualified myself from this contest!
Actually, when Plantas Aquatica in business @ Horne Rd, there was a lovely tank that used algae as foreground, very nice and effectively done. I was puzzled how the algae could be prevented from spreading and blooming all over.
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