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Suggestions on Black Hairy Algae?


nzquiet1

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Greetings all, my main tank and Aqua One 850 is rather full of the black hairy stuff, which is mainly due to me being slack, and the fish not being worried by it. Anyway, I'm currently planning on a mass clean out of the tank and rescaping for a change, so will move the fish to a temp tank, and then empty the main one fully.

The big question is if I wash out all the gravel/ornaments etc, will this be enough to get rid of the black hairy algae, or should I also hit the tank with the flourish excel.??

From what I have read, you double dose the flourish excel for the tank, which will take out all the plant life, and hopefully leave the fish along, although if I go this way I will move at least halve of them out. :-)

Any comments/recommendations, as would greatly appreciate them.

Regards,

NzQuiet1 (Shane)

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you are right about dbl the recommended dose have dosed a tank before like this it dosent affect the plants in fact they thrive esp amazon swords it will turn the black hair algae (known as blk mans beard ) orange after about a week and then continue to kill it till its gone it dosent seem to destroy it completly as i have had it back in the same tank twice since then i have heard of ppl cleaning out the tank drying out the stones in the sun for a week and throwing all their plants only to get it back so this method is far easier the fish on the other hand well in my experience i lost two so if i could i would move them ...maybe others have had different results and maybe my fish died of other causes just bad timing but my amazon swords threw like three runners and went from 2 amazons to like twenty

hope this helps

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yep.. as what Mr Pleco said.

Double dose flourish exel every second day. then wait for the BBA to die

don't do any water changes untill all the algae dies, or you will be wasting money using flourish exel.. well that is what I do now and I haven't seen it come back again.

discus, bristlenose, clown loaches all survived.

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Hi there,

If you get rid of the algae fast watch the nitrate/nitrites in your tank.

The algae may be acting as a giant filter and if it is well established over a long period of time you might "spike" your tank.

HTH

Navarre

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my 3 silver sharks have demolished 80% of the alge on one of my crypts. Couldnt wok out why they wouldnt eat flake food, especially when one had come from a healthy tank, and was a bit of a pig.

Closer inspection reveals alge free tank :P

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