The worst type of Algae

Bba is my forever enemy ==

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Positron said:

I'm curious as to what everyone's nemesis is when it comes to algae. It doesn't have to be the type of algae that is most prevalent in your tank. Algae can upset people for a many reasons. Perhaps there is no GSA in your tank but on a few leaves on anubias and it won't go away.

Anyway I hate BBA. It's horrid and needs to never have evolved.

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jeffpersonn said:

Bba is my forever enemy ==

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+1....bba

I'm currently battling some kind of hair/thread algae, but the one I hate most is green spot. I couldn't get it off the glass, so I couldn't see into the tank, and thus my algae problems just continued to snowball as I wasn't even aware of some of them until they got out of hand. I've reset tanks several times, but this was the only time I was really aggravated by it.

BBA and staghorn are easily dealt with in my experience. The one I do hate the most though is spirogyra since it gets tangled in everything.

Clado. I'll take everything else all at once if I never have to deal with clado again.

edub said:

clado. I'll take everything else all at once if i never have to deal with clado again.

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agreed...

the one I hate is BGA, mainly because the smell, it triggers my gag reflex so every time I clean out bga, I wind up puking or almost puking

jmf3460 said:

the one I hate is BGA, mainly because the smell, it triggers my gag reflex so every time I clean out bga, I wind up puking or almost puking

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Clado is a BGA correct?

And yeah the smell is awful... Like rotting lawn clippings and pee.

EntoCraig said:

Like rotting lawn clippings and pee.

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it is such a weird smell to me, like not even a terrible smell, oddly musty and earthy, still it triggers my gag for some reason. I can handle horse/cow manure, dog poo, burnt hair anything else just cant stomach the BGA

I've been having a few issues with BBA. Idid a spot treatment with excel and it cleared all of it. But I started slowly seeing it come back on my hard scape. Damn algae! Lol

:icon_evilSpirogyra:icon_evil - so hard to get rid of. I can pull it to keep it under control, but it is always there waiting to explode when you go away for a week.

EntoCraig said:

Clado is a BGA correct?

Edit: Yup it is... And yeah the smell is awful... Like rotting lawn clippings and pee.

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huh? I believe Clado and BGA are different algae.

Anyways, my vote goes to cladophora algae. In my opinion, its worst than bba. I can manage bba to a certain extent but clado is just something else.

Mizuhuman said:

huh? I believe Clado and BGA are different algae.

Anyways, my vote goes to cladophora algae. In my opinion, its worst than bba. I can manage bba to a certain extent but clado is just something else.

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I think you are correct, my mistake.

BGA is cyanobacteria

jmf3460 said:

BGA is cyanobacteria

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Oh that's right! I got confused... I had a cyanobacteria infestation in one of my vivariums and I thought it was clado for the longest time...

We hates it! (Gollum voice)

jmhk said:

:icon_evilSpirogyra:icon_evil - so hard to get rid of. I can pull it to keep it under control, but it is always there waiting to explode when you go away for a week.

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I know that feel. It just shrugs off H2O2 and Excel overdosing. The only way I've been able to kill it is with Algaefix. It kinda sucks though in that it kills shrimp.

BBA for me BUT I have yet to experience clado.

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wheres the option for all? :icon_evil

Is Green Dust algae that algae that just settles on things and doesn't stick to anything?
If so, then I have it in one tank and don't mind it. I feed it to my shrimp and they love it.