beachy Posted June 22, 2005 Report Share Posted June 22, 2005 Ok not to sure if this should have gone into the plant section but, does anyone know what bright green algae is a sign of? Its not like the normal green algae, its greeny-blue(bit hard to explain). It has started to grow over my gravel, i can clean the bottom but it comes back after a couple of days. It started to appear after i put some slate rock that was on my deck into my aquarium. Any ideas? the water tests ok for ammonia and nitrite, and the nitrates are acceptable, its got me baffled. :-? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan_from_nz Posted June 22, 2005 Report Share Posted June 22, 2005 I have had this algea also, never seen it prior and even at 0.5 ppm phosphates it was still present Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beachy Posted June 22, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2005 My fish seem ok. so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted June 22, 2005 Report Share Posted June 22, 2005 Does it form a slimey sheet over things? If so, it is cyanobacteria and not an algae. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan_from_nz Posted June 22, 2005 Report Share Posted June 22, 2005 I don't think it was blue enough to be cyno I don't know about forming a slimey sheet but I found it grew on the gravel and then started smothering my ambulia a customer of mine had the same thing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beachy Posted June 22, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2005 No, but i reackon if i dont do a gravel clean for a while it prob would. So if it is cyanobacteria, what does this mean? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Posted June 22, 2005 Report Share Posted June 22, 2005 It means you need to buy some black market E off your friendly local dealer... (E=Erythromycin Works great) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wok Posted June 22, 2005 Report Share Posted June 22, 2005 Use with care (E, I mean) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suphew Posted June 22, 2005 Report Share Posted June 22, 2005 As Wok says you need to be very careful using Erythromycin, it is an antibacterial and will kill your filter, plus you can't buy it so unless you can find a friendly vet or someone with some you would be out of luck. Also because you can't buyy it as a treatment it's a bit hard to know what the correct dosing would be. IMO it will work but doesn't treat the course. Now you know what it is a suggest you do some research and identify the problem and work on fixing that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted June 22, 2005 Report Share Posted June 22, 2005 Take a look in the Plant section under Furran 2. A similar topic has just been discussed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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