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#41 Guest_jakemyster44_*

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Posted 30 December 2013 - 01:39 PM

I'll be sure to keep an eye on any new additions to the tank this spring. The two darter species I currently have outside are greensides and logperch so I'm hoping there wont be any issues. If there are, I wouldn't mind sticking the madtom into his own tank for the spring...

#42 mattknepley

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Posted 01 January 2014 - 01:04 PM

That black bottle brush algae looks like my stuff, and it is behaving as you have described. It definitely prefers rock to other surface, though it does also grow on plastic filter housings and on slow growing plants. It even has established a foothold on a big honkin' mass of java moss, but I just pull it off as need be there. I liked this stuff when it was just one little wavy colony, now that there's a zillion little new ones starting I'm not so sure. If it grows in thick it might look pretty neat. If it stays spotty, not so much...
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Posted 23 January 2014 - 05:49 PM

I have that algae (BBA) in my planted tanks. In my tanks it really likes the driftwood a lot. It's usually a sign of a lot of excess nutrients and nitrates in the water. If you want to get rid of it large, frequent water changes are a must. You can use seachem flourish excel applied directly to the affected areas to help get rid of it. I used to use a little children's medicine syringe to squirt it on the spots on my driftwood. That worked better than anything else I tried. It's really hard to get rid of it completely. As far as it getting on plants, the only plants I had that problem with was the anubias plants. It attached to them like crazy and looked terrible. I eventually had to pull a lot of my anubias out because it looked so bad. Most other plants won't have a problem with it though.




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