anyone can help mi on algae

[ericchua]

Hi guys... My tank now currently had alot of those black colour harry wan...
anyone can teach how to get it away [img]



even my tube is black

[timebomb]

Good grief, here we go again. Please read this.

Loh K L

[ericchua]

hi time bomb... im askin for the algae help not that...
anyone can help mi on that

[eddy planer]

hi time bomb... im askin for the algae help not that...
anyone can help mi on that

Hi Eric,

We all will oblige to help you to rid of hairy algae .

But this is an international forum which require no singlish or short form sms text which totally unknown to others.

Please kindly refrain using them.

We appreciate your understanding... :P

Here some tips:

I got the same problem encountered. Someone(customer) at NA introduce me to Seachem PhoseGuard and another product that absorb nitrate. At the same time, I also installed a chiller with temp between 25- 24 degree C. Together with physical removal of at much of the algae as possible, introduction of the red claw shrimp, this hairy algae disappeared in around 2 months time. Now still fighting against BBA.

Hope this will help you.

[PeterGwee]

That is BBA. Target 30ppm of CO2 for the entire photoperiod would stop it from growing and then removing it manually.

Regards
Peter Gwee

[ericchua]

some one told me that can use the UV light to kill them is that ture...
and anyone the price of that
Anyone know where to buy cheap moss???

[|squee|]

No that's not true. UV lighting can only kill algae spores present in the water itself.

[ericchua]

than what should I use to kill them?

[whuntley]

Go back to Peter's suggestion.

Plants will outgrow and starve out algae if given adequate nutrients.

It really is that simple.

Wright

[|squee|]

Eric,

Have you been properly introduced to planted tanks?

http://www.aquatic-plants.org/articl...ges/index.html

However back to the topic: you have black beard algae (BBA). It is caused by flunctuating or insufficent CO2 levels in your tank.

To get rid of it, increase your CO2 input to the point where plants are bubbling at least 3 hours after your lights turn on. How are you diffusing your CO2, through diffusor or reactor?

You must clean up and remove the present BBA. How you do this is up to you: elbow grease, nuking, etc.

Defeat of algae is like what Wright said, focus on plant health; give them enough to grow and algae will naturally be beaten back.

If you are not injecting CO2 for your tank at all, stop doing water changes and only top up water lost to evaporation on a regular basis. This will ensure a stable concentration of CO2 in your tank and BBA will not be induced. You still have to remove the present BBA, and because you'll not be doing water changes, your bioload has to be reduced significantly.

[Jungle-mania]

You can use Seachem excel and inject directly at the BBA, it will also work, but since it is a CO2 solution, you might have to step down the amount of CO2 pumped into the tank.