Growing algae problem. - Page 2 - Algae

derringer · 08-07-2008, 08:56 AM

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Originally Posted by rich815

If one keeps changing things every few days it can do nothing but drive you mad in the end!

I have been struggling with this stuff the last few weeks as well and I think your comments above are very important. When you try something you have to give it time to work or at least time to see if it will work. If you are changing things every day or every other day you arent going to see much of anything but stress and possibly you will make more problems for the tank.

For me this stuff likes my giant hygro and my swords - thus far all I have done is spot treat with excel which seemed to knock some of it out. I'm going to keep that up for at least a week or two before I try something else - that is unless it starts to get worse.

rich815 · 08-07-2008, 09:28 AM

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Originally Posted by derringer

I have been struggling with this stuff the last few weeks as well and I think your comments above are very important. When you try something you have to give it time to work or at least time to see if it will work. If you are changing things every day or every other day you arent going to see much of anything but stress and possibly you will make more problems for the tank.

For me this stuff likes my giant hygro and my swords - thus far all I have done is spot treat with excel which seemed to knock some of it out. I'm going to keep that up for at least a week or two before I try something else - that is unless it starts to get worse.

The spot treatment with excel will kill off what you see but will not address the root of why it got there in the first place. Using H2O2 or Excel to spot treat what's there is helping to make sure those particular algae will not spore to make more (does algae make "spores"? You know what I mean....) But there's plenty of spores everywhere and elsewhere anyway. And coming in on new plants you buy, and so forth. Spot treating with excel kills what's there but it is not changing anything really in terms of what might knock out or address what's causing the algae in the first place.