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[AGA Member] Re: Hair algae
OK, Randy, Cheryl, I'm not as smart as many of the others on this list so I
typically wait to see if a better answer comes along... I'd point the finger
at nitrates first, and general fertilization second. I had hair algae (the
long green kind) so bad in the fancy goldfish tank that it turned into
dreadlocks (I'm not kidding) from the fish swimming through it. When I moved
that fish out and began fertilizing more it rapidly went away. Nitrates were
always zero or nearly so in that tank for the fancy goldfish sulked whenever
I added nitrate so I kept it very low and with the 38 watts (spiral
flourescents) over 10 gallons the lighting was rather high. Taking the
nitrates up to 5 -10 ppm made a noticible difference in just a few days.
If you have the slightly curly black kind, looks like a man's leg or
underarm hair, I have had that in a new tank right after start up and also
induced it by massively overdosing phosphates. In the new tank, I brought in
rosy barbs, who ate it all in a matter of hours. In the case of the
phosphate overdose, it just went away on its own, or maybe I still had the
barbs then, I don't recall. Anyhow the rosy barbs eventually developed a
taste for anubias nana and java fern (and you hear no fish will eat that!)
as well as MTS, and I moved them on to the pet store.
Ann Viverette
>
> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 20:18:41 -0600
> From: Cheryl Rogers <cheryl@rightstuffwebsites.com>
> Subject: Re: [AGA Member] Hair algae
>
> Randy Pullen wrote:
>
> > Any suggestions on getting rid of hair algae? Long thin green strands
> > are hanging off my plant's leaves as long as an inch or two. I reduced
> > the lighting to 2.5 watts for 8 hrs. It is a newly started tank. I was
> > running 5 watts per gallon at first. That's when this started.
> > Thanks,
> > Randy
> >
>
> C'mon, y'all. I told Randy that if he posted a question to this list he
> would get five amazing answers.
>
> Cheryl Rogers
> Oak Point, TX
>
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