Ok I'll go with the removal route, as much as possible I don't want to use chemicals in my tank heck I have crypts and vals and apparently they can be quite the drama queens.
Cyanobacteria can grow in any tank and at stage of the tank's life. It grows in newly set up aquariums and old aquariums and everything in between. It loves nutrients, red light, low oxygen levels and slow water movement. The most common cause in aquariums is too much dry food and lack of water changes and gravel cleaning.
Does having only a sponge filter mean it's slow moving current? Should I add an internal filter with a power head but if this spread by spores wouldn't that help it cover more ground IDK.
How did you know I keep mollies lol.
, the reddish growth kinda looking raised at some angles, I don't know how to say it but it looks like an egg white film-ish thing surrounding it like some slime on an eel.IoI what are they?
Theyre mollies ahahaha, they're part balloon molly cause their mother is one, as for the father I don't know perhaps a common molly. How am I gonna tell the fry about that when they grow up
..... They Gon be asking questions a time from now, lolWell then, let's get your Driftwood BBA sorted lol.Theyre mollies ahahaha, they're part balloon molly cause their mother is one, as for the father I don't know perhaps a common molly. How am I gonna tell the fry about that when they grow up
Most sponge filters create a small amount of current so there would only be a small amount of water movement. Depending on the tank size, this might be sufficient if the aquarium is small. However, if the aquarium is large then a single sponge filter won't provide much current.
If the fish are grazing on the biofilm on the driftwood, that is fine. If you gravel clean the poop off the wood each week when you do a water change, that is also fine. The poop is unlikely to cause a major blue green algae issue.
Ok, I'd love that but I thought it's cyano not bba?
Guys, do you think it will make a difference if I tell that the driftwood is where they graze and and I keep seeing poop on it, like it accumulates there. And I don't remove it usually I just let the water sweep it when I refill the tank after a water change but I guess if it did sweep it, I wouldn't have this rn lol.
Or another possible reason is that the driftwood is rotting
It looked red hair algae to me and germinates by travelling in water currents. Cyano as Colin said due to food or poor maintenance or old Driftwood.
Yeah the only biodegradable thing in there that's not still connected to a living thing is the driftwood. The leaves that fall off I remove. They are probably feasting on it. Since cyanobacteria like light, I think it might be due to the change in my lid that exacerbated this, I changed my lid to something clearer so the intensity is light is stronger but I already diffused it back then. Hmmm
