"Richard Sexton" wrote in message
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Koi-Lo My impersonator is Roy TJ Hauer aka Roy. wrote:

"Richard Sexton" wrote in message
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I don't use any chemicals in my tanks. I rely on the fish. I feed
the fish and the fish feed the plants.

The problem is they don't. Fertilize properly and use Co2 OR Flourish
Excel and it'll go away by itself.

In your tanks maybe. I bought all those Seachem fertilizers plus Flourish
and still have black-red algae. Let people know before spending a lot of
cash that what works for YOU may not work for THEM.

I had this crap for 7 years till Tom Barr convinced me if
I put fertilizer in the tank the algae will go away. He
uses CO2 I use Excel. Both work.

But not for everyone since not everyone has the exact same conditions you
do
and these products are not cheap.

Any fool that can use google can see it's worked for everybody except you
and one other guy. This comes as no surprise as I suepct the laws of
physics
don't actually apply at your house.

And any fool knows all tanks are different with different loads, different
water conditions, different gallonage, differing numbers and types of
plants. And I suspect my conditions are not like your conditions. And you
are WRONG,... there was another woman here who had it fail for her as well.
If she sees this thread she may reply.

Excel is $8. A full load of chemicals for a year is $12 from a hydroponics
store.

$12.00? When? 30 years ago? Or are you talking about for one 10g tank?
The shipping and handling *alone* was $18 at the last recommended website I
checked out for these chemicals - that didn't include the price of any of
the chemicals (micronutrients, iron supplements etc). As for the Seachem
products, the typical 250ml size doesn't go very far when one has several
55g tanks or even several smaller tanks.
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