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Eradicating BBA
"Chris_S" wrote in message ... 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 |
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