Curiosity101
Is now at University! :D
I've literally tried everything to get rid of this blue green algae.
I've tried low nitrates, I've tried regularly fertilising, I've tried removing as much as possible during water changes and I've tried burying it (doesn't work cause it's a bacteria with cilia!).
I tried lowering the photoperiod to 6 hours...and now I've finally given in.
Just wrapped my fish up for 3 days of pitch blackness...
A lesson to you all, do NOT buy duckweed. It's a symbiont of Blue Green Algae (cynobacteria), so it only takes one of them to die to release the bacteria into your tank.
I didn't have a single problem till I introduced duckweed in the tank...
Nevermind eh. Hope my fishies don't mind too much, and I really hope my plants don't suffer.
I've tried low nitrates, I've tried regularly fertilising, I've tried removing as much as possible during water changes and I've tried burying it (doesn't work cause it's a bacteria with cilia!).
I tried lowering the photoperiod to 6 hours...and now I've finally given in.
Just wrapped my fish up for 3 days of pitch blackness...
A lesson to you all, do NOT buy duckweed. It's a symbiont of Blue Green Algae (cynobacteria), so it only takes one of them to die to release the bacteria into your tank.
I didn't have a single problem till I introduced duckweed in the tank...
Nevermind eh. Hope my fishies don't mind too much, and I really hope my plants don't suffer.