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I was searching Google today for info on Chloramines & nitrites and tripped
over a website for ALGONE . Such are the google gods ;-) Anyone have any experience with it. It is supposed to control algae by controlling nitrate levels. I couldn't find anything explaining how. Any one know how it works? I don't remember seeing it mentioned in discussions of green water, so I was curious. Bob |
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"Robert Flory" wrote in message y.com...
I was searching Google today for info on Chloramines & nitrites and tripped over a website for ALGONE . Such are the google gods ;-) Anyone have any experience with it. It is supposed to control algae by controlling nitrate levels. I couldn't find anything explaining how. Any one know how it works? I don't remember seeing it mentioned in discussions of green water, so I was curious. Bob You cannot control algae very well with NO3 level manipulations(Except by growing the plants with the NO3) and not at all with GW. GW can live just fine at 0.0ppm of NO3. For weeks, months etc. There are no hobby kits that have enough resolution to show either PO4 or NO3 limitation of GW. If the tank is slightly off balance products like this will work. But it really depends on the balance of the tank. Adding PO4 or KNO3 can cause algae to disappear also. Or CO2, or a regular water change routine, etc........ Blackouts can kill about all algae, GW included. Diatom filtration will remove it. UV sterilizers will also. Daphnia are very good. All these method do in fact work if done properly. I've tried all them. Algae removal is rather simple. You remove it manually, like with large water changes etc and good scrub down of the tank, trim off infected parts. Add the plant nutrients back into the tank afterwards. Repeat. GW, BBA, BGA and maybe a couple of other algae need to removed first, then have the conditions corrected. All algae should be removed before a water change, prunings etc, then do the water change, than add the nutrients back into the tank. GW and BGA need killed first otherwise they will come back even if the nutrients are corrected. Blacking the tank out for 3-5 days will kill most of these algae as long as the tank is 100% dark and competely covered up. You cannot beat these algae by limiting a nutrient, your plants would die long before you compleley killed these algae off. Turn lights back on and keep up on the nutrients this time. Algone or any other algae silver bullet cure will not grow plants. That is the key to algae prevention: grow the plants well and you'll not have algae issues. Unless it addresses that issue, it's no cure. You need to grow the plants well because when they don't grow well, the algae does. Regards, Tom Barr |
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