>>> My understanding was that the americans fertilized him with tons of postassium nitrate which is the reason for this world wide algae b(l)oom. > > But regarding my poor red eye tetra... - any advice would be much appreciated, > > Aviel.<< Quite the opposite.He is like a bad out break of blue green algae. Slimy, disgusting parasite that spreads out like a disease. What it needs is to be nuked with an anti biotic to be erased from the world once and for all. >>Great post, Roger. Now, dosing iron daily just isn't going to happen for me - feeding the fish daily is pushing it. So, what do you recommend for a substrate-iron-enricher?<< Roger is always full of great ideas! Quite a scientific mind. But he is also becoming quite the artist. Amano beware! check this out http://members.spinn.net/~roger/10gallonfull.jpg Robert Hudson www.aquabotanic.com ------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please send mail to majordomo@thekrib.com with "Unsubscribe aga-member" in the body of the message. Archives of this list can be found at http://lists.thekrib.com/aga-member/