Co2 vs. Algae The battle of the century

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fishymatty

Discussion Starter · Jun 27, 2007

I have a beautiful Iwugami style 38g tank that until recently was algae free for the most part. A little diatom, some green spot on the glass but thats it. Recently I noticed my fish were all going to die after a failed treatment of Camallanus Worms.
For almost a week the lights and co2 were off in my tank while I treated, now that they are back on and ferts are dosed I have green algae and hair algae every where.
Do I black out, or keep the lights on their normal photo period and crank the co2 up Up UP.
I am willing to go to drastic measures to get rid of this stuff. I will tear the tank down and start over if there was a way to kill the algae on the plants with out killing the plants. Is there anything I can dip the plants in?

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Joetee

· #2 · Jun 27, 2007

You can do a Bleach dip but I find that a little drastic. It is my last resort. I prefer to use H202 at about 2 mil per gallon.
http://www.gpodio.com/h2o2.asp
Here's a link to help you with H202. You can do a spot treatment or a whole tank treatment. I find it easier to do a whole tank treatment first. There are many ways here you can search for and find different ways.

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fishymatty

Discussion Starter · #3 · Jun 27, 2007

Do you have or know of anyone who has experience with treating hair algae, green algae and green spot algae?

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zach

· #4 · Jun 28, 2007

what you need is seachem excel flourish, inject lots of c02 , try spot treamtent on worst parts and prune

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GIO590

· #5 · Jul 15, 2007

Get some some shrimp. They will take care of a good deal of the problem.

The common petstore ghost or glass shrimp aka "feeder shrimp" will eat devour hair algae, I know from experience.

Although your fish will eat them, at a 1-2$ per dozen ghost shimp are good remedey for hairstring algae.

try putting them in when the other fish are sleeping so they get a chance to eat algea before they get eaten.

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edacsac

· #6 · Sep 30, 2007

Are there any plants that will suffer from H2O2 treatment? I know riccia doesn't like excel, so I'm wondering if riccia will have a problem with H2O2.

Joetee said:
You can do a Bleach dip but I find that a little drastic. It is my last resort. I prefer to use H202 at about 2 mil per gallon.
http://www.gpodio.com/h2o2.asp
Here's a link to help you with H202. You can do a spot treatment or a whole tank treatment. I find it easier to do a whole tank treatment first. There are many ways here you can search for and find different ways.

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Joetee

· #7 · Sep 30, 2007

edacsac said:
Are there any plants that will suffer from H2O2 treatment? I know riccia doesn't like excel, so I'm wondering if riccia will have a problem with H2O2.

Yes there are some. Its been a long time since I've had trouble though. I usually clean and prune. If I have a bad case then I prefer to remove the plants and due a H202 dip in a bucket. If you have some sensitive plants you can try dipping only one or a small portion to see what happens. After 2 days you should know if the h202 is going to kill them. I prefer H202 over bleach because you don't have to be to worried about rinsing. With Bleach, you need to really rinse well and then do a declor. Also you might not want to get your plant ground roots into the bleach.
I haven't tried Excell yet but heard it really works good.

I hope this helps.

Joe

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mistergreen

· #8 · Sep 30, 2007

check your water params.
& start up slowly, like don't give full light.

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