cherry question - Page 2 - Shrimp & other Invertebrates

jackh · 06-30-2008, 01:08 PM

as for fish, right now i only have one grown molly and 4 juveniles. i really doubt i overfeed, as i feed maybe every other day and i never put enough in to have food float to the bottom. however, i was gone for a week and the person who was supposed to feed my fish def overfed bc when i got back the algea was horrible...

what you said makes perfect sense now bc i noticed a boom in my growth paired with no algea. my plants seemingly stopped growing and then algea got bad lol.

ill check out that thread. im also gonna do a major rescape like today or tomorrow and much of the hardscape that has lots of algea on it is gonna go.

Tex Gal · 06-30-2008, 03:25 PM

Whatever hardscape with algae can be saved if you want to reuse it. Just do a 20:1 bleach dip. (20 cups of water to 1 cup of bleach). Completes submerge them for about 10 minutes. It will kill all the algae. Then use some Prime (or some dechlorinator) and over dose new water and soak them in that for a while. You can safely use them with no threat of live algae on them. You can do with same bleach dip with most plants that you can remove from your tank. With plants just leave them in for 2 min. or so.

Here is also a link to using H2O2 (peroxide)
http://www.gpodio.com/h2o2.asp

jackh · 06-30-2008, 04:59 PM

isnt that what you do? i thought i read you saying you used H202

DBL TAP · 07-01-2008, 08:21 PM

Your tank doesn't get any direct light by chance, does it?

jackh · 07-01-2008, 09:20 PM

no. i moved it today though, its now on a table next to a window. still doesn't get any direct light but now it will get some sun whereas it used to not get any

DBL TAP · 07-01-2008, 10:06 PM

I suggest you move it away from the window! You have enough light and when it really heats up outside - so will your tank!