my community tank has a dark green covering over leaves wood stones and glass, even after a complete strip down and change of stones it is starting to spread again I use flourish excell (overdose just a little) It doesnt look too bad at the moment but if it takes off Ill be in trouble. any suggestions????????

is it a mucky greeny slimey mess???lol.

If it is then it is most probably cyanobacteria and it wont have gone with a complete strip down no...

you will need erythomicin which is a prescription medicine

Good Luck

Rogan

Some large water changes should help, but yeah if it's cyanobacteria treat as evil said.

its not slimey so I guess Ill be gettin some medicine

so how do I go about gettin some? Can anyone get it

no, if it IS slimey then it wil be cyanobacteria...

if its NOT slimey then it could be anything....includiny cyano....lol

Got any pics of it or a better description???

Rogan

Cyano forms a dark or bright green mat you can pick up in quite large pieces. It indicates things are out of balance in your tank.

Try keeping the lights off for a week. Feed the fish very lightly. Vacuum out as much of the cyano as possible.

Plant lots of fast growing plants.

last resort, use Erythromycin. This is a prescription only medicine though.

Sandra may have some at the Living Waters.

Don't know if they have moved yet.

Have they??

Alan 104

i would stop dosing with Flourish just for now. was reading somewhere the other day and a person with algae probs got told to stop using ferts as your just 'encouraging' it to grow by feeding it. you want your plants to use the flourish not the algae and it looks like its enjoying some extra help :lol: and like caryl said, chuck in some super fast growing plants so they can try take the nutrients before the algae does

note: sharn doesnt know much about algae so techincal terms are not used :oops:

ok its not slimey and I cant just scoop it out it needs to be scrubed off ie ucing my fingernails so get it off the glass- sorry evil read yr reply wrong (Will try a pic tonight) will leave lights off stop using flourish and try some algae rid.

Sounds like just a general dark green algae, one of the more pain in the bum ones which needs to be scrapped off, we get ir on our slow growing plants and the bristlenose;s dont seem to be able to eat it, doesnt cause a problem and dont have a major with it but it's there in small amounts. Try going to plantgeek.com or cichlid-forum.com there are some good pages all about algae on there.