Re: [AGA Member] Bacterial algea?

["Steve" <steve_wilsonii@fishpalace.org>]

My experience has been such that my planted tanks
were always infested with BGA off and on. I would
constanly be adding erithromycin to kill it and it
would stay away for about a month. Test readings
showed slight traces of PO4 and no traces of  any
nitrogen source. I was informed by a fellow
hobbiest to increase the KNO3 and this should be a
better long term solution in balancing out the
bio-available phosphate.
So to test this method, I put 1/2 tsp KNO3 in the
water of my paludarium. This tank is a half full
20gallon long which has a carpet of riccia growing
on the rocks near the water fall that was
completely coated in BGA (wet but emersed) and
under water as well. The very next day there was
no visual sightings of BGA  anywhere, although the
smell was still there. One day later the smell was
gone as well and there was no water changes at all
involved in or around this treatment. Since then I
have not had the pleasure of fighting this smelly,
slimy, photsynthetic bacteria.
Of course this is my own experience and yours may
be different.
Steve


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