Plant and Fish friendly Algicide?

[Laure]

Hi

Here is an interesting article on the use of salicylic acid as a means of controlling algae:

http://oas.uco.edu/01/papers/lfimple01.htm

Dirk Bellstedt - Prof Dirk, this is the active ingredient in Happy-Life Algin Regular. Also aspirin. So perhaps we should just give the algae infected tanks some headache tablets? Might result in less headache for me too! :bigsmile:

[Laure]

Another article:

http://www.springerlink.com/content/n7r0286724087444/fulltext.pdf