RE: [GSAS-Member] Can algae tablets (fish food) cause algae?

["Hess, Clay A" <clay.a.hess@boeing.com>]

Steev,

I am working on putting an article together on algae.  It appears there
are some really good ones that are in TheKrib too.

Clay

-----Original Message-----
From: steev ward [mailto:steevward@mac.com] 
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 8:11 PM
To: Greater Seattle Aquarium Society member chat
Subject: Re: [GSAS-Member] Can algae tablets (fish food) cause algae?


Algae tablets don't usually have much algae in the first place. There is
Spirulina in some (which is a Cyanobacteria and hard to grow) and kelp
in others (which dies when it gets dry), but most of the ingredients are
fish meal and other non-algae. Check your labels.

So no, I don't think you can grow anything from algae discs or tablets
except fungus. But if you find kelp growing in your tanks I take it all
back.

Steev

P.S. The idea of editting the comments down to a "digest" sounds pretty
good. Clays comments could make an article by themselves.

carrera206@comcast.net wrote:

>
> Can algae tablets (fish food) cause algae? By cause I don't mean 
> indirectly though raising of the nitrite/nitrate levels but rather is 
> using algae tablets analgous to sowing seeds in a garden?
>



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