nat Posted February 10, 2005 Report Share Posted February 10, 2005 I am back from my 2 month vacations and am chocked about my aquarium look. Some plants died, those remained do not look healthy. And everything - plants, aquarium glass, driftwood and rocks are covered with the layer of white-green dust. Does anybody know what it is is? I quess it is some type of algae, but which exactly and how to fight them? HELP!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garhan Posted February 11, 2005 Report Share Posted February 11, 2005 Is the green algae like a slime. It maybe cyno bateria. Check all your water parameters, do your water changes too. Garhan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanked Posted February 11, 2005 Report Share Posted February 11, 2005 not enough info. to be of much help, ie: lighting, CO2 or non co2 but if the tank was neglected for 2 months then I would do mulitple smaller water changes initially perhaps on the order of 20% every other day. Prune and remove as much of the dead plant matter that you can. Scrape the algae off the glass and then vacumm the debris up while doing a water change. Reestablish ferts,. if in fact you were dosing ferts. Rick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nat Posted February 11, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2005 It is not a slimy algae, just on the contrary - very hard and not easy to scrape. So I do not think it is cyanobacteria. I could not find in the Internet which describes what I have in my aquarium. Tank parameters - 50 gal aquarium, DIY yeast reactor, 25 deg. celcium, 4 watts per gallon lighting. I believe while I was away no ferts were added. I already cleaned up the aquarium from the dead plants, changed 20% of the water (and am going to do more frequent changes in the future) and added ferts. It looks much better, but I am still concerned about the algae. It does not look good and I do not like the fact that I could not diagnose it (therefore I do not know what to expect). But surprisingly, all the fish have survived and the water tests showed zero amounts of ammonia, nitrites and nitrates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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