Title says it all. I set this 1ft up for myself at work on the 31st of december with 50% established tank water and 50% treated tap water. It has a small heater and a sponge filter. It receives natural sunlight for about 4 hours a day. Added some vallis and a clump of I believe cladophora algae from another tank just to get things going in there. Is there something that will eat this algae? Or should I manually remove this "egh" stuff? :wacko:
Actually it's closer to 2 hours direct sunlight and then about 6 hours next to an open window but very weak light. No other light
Ye, I know direct sunlight on a tank is never a good thing. Ive never seen algae like that though, if anything it looks like its blooming under those conditions which is not a good thing Sent from my GT-I9100 using Tapatalk
@SterlingAce: That is not algae, it is actually Cyanobacteria a form of bacteria. Most people mistake it for algae: T The best way to keep your tank free of cyanobacteria, is to keep up on your water conditions. Don't over feed, keep water quality at perfect or near perfect levels. The most important being the nitrate level, like plants, the cyanobacteria uses nitrates as food. Light is also important. Cyanobacteria, like plants use photosynthesis to survive. Phosphate levels also need to be in the right range. Make sure you have good filtration, good oxygen levels and good co2 levels. It is commonly known as blue-green algae. You can dose 200 mg erythromycin phosphate and it will go away within a day or two.
That's not clado. It's BGA (Cyanobacteria) - Blue Green Algae which is not an algea but a bacteria. You treat it with erythromycin (an antibiotic). *Just beaten to the answer*
Thanks everybody, like I said this tank was setup 3 days ago so that might be another reason why I have this. @Hawk is that big clump of green in the first picture not clado?
Awesome just checking. So with what antibiotic should I use? Sorry answered my own question. So should this also clear up when the tank has finished cycling etc?
+1 @Swagasaurus I would skip the anti bacteria treatment though Do small water changes daily until it away. anti-bacterial will kill your bio filter and cause much more problems than the cyano currently.
@mattie: Erythromycin Phosohate wont kill the beneficial bacteria in your tank as long as you don't overdose.
l also be a very bad idea to put fish in there as the BGA uses oxygen thus robbing the water of it and as far as I know nothing eats this crap.
