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James,

Why did you create a new thread when you have This One going already? Are this different tanks?

BTW, reduce the light period to 11 hours per day, 14 is a little long and will cause more algae of all kinds.

Ingo

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Proud Member of the New Jersey Aquatic Gardeners Club

Oh....um.....anyway, I forgot to ask how to get rid of it in the other thread.....i think.
And I don't think people will pay a lot of attention to a thread that has already been replied and is posted a long time ago.

Hope it's alright.

The situation is kind of frustrating, the tank used to look stunning, but now is covered with disgusting algae.

I forgot to ask how to get rid of it in the other thread

If I am not mistaken then the last entry I made in that thread told you how to get rid of it.

Let me know if you need more info on this

Ingo

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Proud Member of the New Jersey Aquatic Gardeners Club

Here's an observation that may or may not prove useful.

I had a cyanobacteria problem in my quarantine aquarium. I was removing it in quantity after I finished quarantining my Cardinals. How I came to hate the stuff!

Then, I decided to conduct a little experiment.

I took some of the mystery snails from my main aquarium and let them loose.

Result? Cyanobacteria utterly NUKED within a week. And never been seen since.

I don't know what species of mystery snail I have (they're only tiny, and never grow to be more than about 5mm long) but they seem to be a top clean up crew when it comes to cyanobacteria.

I'm now trying out some shrimps as a thread alga controller - read more about this in my "Unexpected Natural Ally" thread in this same Forum!


Panda Catfish fan and keeper/breeder since Christmas 2002