My planted tank is slowly being taken over by what I believe is Brush Algae (small clumps of a dark hair like algae). Its all over my Hygros, dwarf sag and westeria.
Will a SAE take care of this? or should I just keep removing leaves? although I can't seem to keep up with it and its driving me nuts.
any other solutions?
Check out this thread in the plant forum & i think there is some others too.
http://ovas.ca/index.php?topic=19480.0
Regards
It may be a lag of CO2, my planted tanks suffered from this. Since I added CO2 and try to keep the level sort of constant the black brush algae seems to be under control. Check these two threads out:
Thread 1 (http://ovas.ca/index.php?topic=19480.0)
Thread 2 (http://ovas.ca/index.php?topic=19094.0)
SAE are known to go for BBA when they are young and desperatly hungry. But for a 21g they may become to big after a while. Removing all affected leaves is definitely a good thing to do when fighting BBA.
I do plan on moving my 21g to a 55g in the new year after I'm finished setting up my 10g nano.... and then i'm sure the 10g nano will turn into a 21g nano ;D
well I can tell its probably the Co2. I was running Co2 but my hygros were growing over the waterline every couple days so when my Co2 mix was done I decided not to start it and thats probably why i have all this BBA.
Anyone know where to get the Plant Gro Co2 System Bubble Counter these days? petsmart and BA's dont seem to cary them anymore.
Quote from: sdivell on September 11, 2007, 09:29:32 AM
I do plan on moving my 21g to a 55g in the new year after I'm finished setting up my 10g nano.... and then i'm sure the 10g nano will turn into a 21g nano ;D
well I can tell its probably the Co2. I was running Co2 but my hygros were growing over the waterline every couple days so when my Co2 mix was done I decided not to start it and thats probably why i have all this BBA.
Anyone know where to get a hagen ladder these days? petsmart and BA's dont seem to cary them anymore.
Did you try Aquarium services , also i`m sure someone on the forum has one.Try a wante post in the classified.
You can also do the black out routine but you still have to fix the cause after.
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