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I've finally gotten my second tank and am ready to start setting it up. I plan on using a Bio-Wheel from the Marineland filter on my older tank in the filter of the new tank to cycle it. Depending on the advice I get on this forum I may take water from the older tank too.

In the older tank I finally won the war against most of the algea I had. I still have a little of the dark 'fuzzy' algea but not much. Am I right to assume that moving the 'BioWheel' from the old tank to the new one is likely to transfer algea too? What about adding water from the older tank?

Finally, do I need to go to the trouble of using a 5% bleach solution on any plants I tranfer too?

Thanks

Eric

To the best of my knowledge algae is transfered by spores "extremly tiny micro pin point size" any water or wet items that that have water on them, fish, plants, all filter materials, can transfer the spores from one area to another.

I personally would not use bleach on any plants unless you know exactly what you are doing some plants are extremly sensivitive to it.

Just running them under tap water should be sufficient but again if there is any algae growing on the plants this will not remove 100% of the algae.

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As long as you don't get too much natural light and don't overfeed, it won't matter if you introduce algae

I bought some plants off someone that had some nasty Bearded Black Algae on it.. It spread to some other plants and took awhile to get rid of it.. Doing a 'dip' would have killed or weakened the algae.

Making dips from either Potassium Permanganate (KMnO4)
or Alum will help prevent algaes, snails, and other organisms from being introduced to your tank thru introduced plants.

PP takes 10 minutes. Alum takes 4 days.
If using PP, a couple safety precautions should be followed. Don't get it on your skin, don't breathe it in.



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