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BGA or worse???
Is this BGA or something else?
The stuff is very dark little globs which "hang" (up) on the plants - +boyancy. Slimy, very smelly. Globs appear black, but are really dark green. Stuff "pearls". Stuff will float off if plants are brushed. The water gets cloudy. A prefilter (just floss) on the filter intake will turn a blue green, and eventually to deep blue toward black. It gravitates to the above gravel line "roots" (whatever you call the nutrient collecting tendrils that grow above the gravel line) and fine leaved plants like firl or water sprite. Tends to mostly show up on the edge of broader leaves. In the evening this will cause the appearance that the plant is pearling, but I think its the ??? algae/bacteria that's "pearling". I tried maracyn, but at the 1/2 dosage recommended on the rec.aquaria notes on BGA. It did diminish during treatment (but I was running a diatom filter at the same time) but has now returned. If this is just BGA, do I now go back to maracyn but at the full "sick fish" dosage? (when I can get some more maracyn). Many thanks in advance, Sharon |
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BGA or worse???
Sounds like BGA, all right.
I had this problem before I got a Python, whenever I let the tank go too long between water changes. I also sometimes get it when the tank gets too overgrown, and there's not enough circulation. (Usually growing at the top of the tank, even floating on the water.) Cutting the plants back so they don't touch the surface of the water fixes that. Leigh http://www.fortunecity.com/lavender/halloween/881/ |
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BGA or worse???
Sounds like BGA, all right.
I had this problem before I got a Python, whenever I let the tank go too long between water changes. I also sometimes get it when the tank gets too overgrown, and there's not enough circulation. (Usually growing at the top of the tank, even floating on the water.) Cutting the plants back so they don't touch the surface of the water fixes that. Leigh http://www.fortunecity.com/lavender/halloween/881/ |
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