I've been dealing with pretty bad Cladophora algae in my nano tank - it ruined my last scape so I stripped the tank right down and didn't reuse anything other than the filter housing, media and sponges. But now its back... I'm keeping on top of it by manually removing it as much as I can at water changes but it is so vigorous its not super easy...
I've sort of accepted this in the nano tank but I don't want to spread it to my other tanks, particularly my 100 litre which is planted - my Mbuna tank would probably be fine as I think they'd eat it.
In the nano tank I had a school of Red Dwarf Rasbora but I only have one left now which I wish is a bit lonely - I've tried looking round and can't find more. But in my 100 litre I have 7 Rummy Nose Rasbora, but... they do look a lot like Red Dwarfs so I'm wondering if they are actually the same. I got them from a Maidenhead and they were unlabelled so I asked and the person I spoke to didn't know what Rummy Nose Rasboras were but said they were Asian Rummy Nose Tetras...
So the question is, if I carefully transfer the Red Dwarf Rasbora from the tank with the algae issue with to the other tank will I risk the Cladophora getting into the tank with the other suspected Red Dwarfs in? When I say carefully I'd use one net to transfer it to a tub and then use a clean net to transfer it to the new tank, in the hope of not picking up fragments of algae with the fish.
Wills
I've sort of accepted this in the nano tank but I don't want to spread it to my other tanks, particularly my 100 litre which is planted - my Mbuna tank would probably be fine as I think they'd eat it.
In the nano tank I had a school of Red Dwarf Rasbora but I only have one left now which I wish is a bit lonely - I've tried looking round and can't find more. But in my 100 litre I have 7 Rummy Nose Rasbora, but... they do look a lot like Red Dwarfs so I'm wondering if they are actually the same. I got them from a Maidenhead and they were unlabelled so I asked and the person I spoke to didn't know what Rummy Nose Rasboras were but said they were Asian Rummy Nose Tetras...
So the question is, if I carefully transfer the Red Dwarf Rasbora from the tank with the algae issue with to the other tank will I risk the Cladophora getting into the tank with the other suspected Red Dwarfs in? When I say carefully I'd use one net to transfer it to a tub and then use a clean net to transfer it to the new tank, in the hope of not picking up fragments of algae with the fish.
Wills
