"Chris_S" wrote in message
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Hi Rick:

Ditto. Glad you can appreciate my position. I am also very grateful for
your feedback. It sounds like bleach is by far the most effective way to
deal with BBA. It has real results. That is the conclusion I have come
to
as well.

I agree with everything you say. And that is why I think it is best to
bleach the whole tank in place, after removing the fish of course. That
way
I kill the spores in the entire system: gravel, filters, pumbling,
everywhere all in one shot.

I have a question for you. What is your feeling about the reinfestation
potential from moving the fish into another clean water temp tank, and
then
moving them back in? Do you feel that is enough to dillute down the BBA
spores from the clean water that minimal will be transported back in when
I
return them? Anything else I can do here to help with the fish move?

I just want to make sure that after all this tank filling and draining the
BBA is truely gone. Like you say, I want every BBA spore dead or out of
the
system.

When you say it never came back, that is really GREAT news. That's the
result I am hoping for.

Thanks, Chris.



I did not have any problem with the algae coming back. To tell you the truth
I never even thought about it perhaps coming back in with the fish although
I did bleach the net I used to take them out of the infected tank. In
response to HappyCampers post it has been over a year for me and it never
came back. I have 35 tanks running right now and every single one of them
has live plants of some sort with two larger one's heavily planted. I deal
with algae on a regular basis and I can handle cleaning glass and bleaching
the odd anubias or other slow growing plant or rock that gets some black
tuffs on it however once you get to the level of frustration I was at and
your at then kill it dead, dead dead and start over. Monitor for any signs
of it returning and it's probably then that if it does come back you may be
able to control it. I agree with others as far as dealing with the root
cause. I'm not even sure why it showed up in one of my tanks and not others.
Good luck with this Chris and obviously we are hoping you never see it again
but if it does come back then another approach may have to be considered.

Rick