Hi all,

I have a 10 gallons tank, with 7 Barb tetra. Green Algae is always a
big problem for me. It is everywhere in the tank. _ I tired many
different methods like having a couple of apple snails in my tank,
shrimps, plants or shorten the light exposure time. All of the above,
does't really work well _
Does anyone know how to solve the green algae problem?
I will be very thankful

Jenny

Hello Jenny:
I'd put the tank in another place with no light directly from the sun.

Jenny Hsu escribió:
Hi all,

I have a 10 gallons tank, with 7 Barb tetra. Green Algae is always a
big problem for me. It is everywhere in the tank. _ I tired many
different methods like having a couple of apple snails in my tank,
shrimps, plants or shorten the light exposure time. All of the above,
does't really work well _
Does anyone know how to solve the green algae problem?
I will be very thankful

Jenny

|| Hi all,
||
|| I have a 10 gallons tank, with 7 Barb tetra. Green Algae is always a
|| big problem for me. It is everywhere in the tank. _ I tired many
|| different methods like having a couple of apple snails in my tank,
|| shrimps, plants or shorten the light exposure time. All of the above,
|| does't really work well _
|| Does anyone know how to solve the green algae problem?
|| I will be very thankful
||
|| Jenny

You can google at length to find others and their solutions... Blackout the
tank, dose with ferts of KN03, or a UV Sterilizer.... they've all got mixed
results, cuz whatever and whenever it works, they never come back to report
success or failure...

I had it once... I did large water changes, lowered the time my lights were
on, down to 10hrs daily, and stopped feeding as much... Eventually I turned
off the lights for 4 days and with several water changes, it eventually went
away....

In your case, I'd watch how much you fed, turn the lights back to maximum
8hrs, do a water change here and there, and maybe just slow down and be
patient, somethings take time to show improvement...

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is that better??

Do yourself a great favour and get a Bristle Nose Pleco or 2. These guys are
the Hoovers of the fish world so far as algae is concerned.
I have a dwarf Anubia, which over the months became covered in algae. I
purchased a couple of 2.5cm Bristle Nose plecos and over two days and
nights, these little dudes completey cleaned the leaves of algae.

On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 20:07:20 GMT, "cabaloz"
wrote:

Do yourself a great favour and get a Bristle Nose Pleco or 2. These guys are
the Hoovers of the fish world so far as algae is concerned.
I have a dwarf Anubia, which over the months became covered in algae. I
purchased a couple of 2.5cm Bristle Nose plecos and over two days and
nights, these little dudes completey cleaned the leaves of algae.



How large do the Bristle Nose Plecos get? I have marbled Plecos, 3 in
my 75 gallon tank and they are doing fine and after 2 years are less
than 4 inches. However, I have lost several in my 10 gallon tanks.
I don't know why. All my tanks' fish get flake food. One of the 10
gallon tanks had lots of algae. I like having a variety of
scavengers, but would hate to buy more plecos for the 10 gallon tanks
and have them die or get too large.

dick

|| How large do the Bristle Nose Plecos get? I have marbled Plecos, 3
|| in my 75 gallon tank and they are doing fine and after 2 years are
|| less than 4 inches. However, I have lost several in my 10 gallon
|| tanks. I don't know why. All my tanks' fish get flake food. One of
|| the 10 gallon tanks had lots of algae. I like having a variety of
|| scavengers, but would hate to buy more plecos for the 10 gallon tanks
|| and have them die or get too large.
||
|| dick

Ive had a bristlenose for 3 years, still 2.5 inches, and a rubberlipped at
2.0 and I love 'em...

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is that better??

Hi guys

Thanks a lot for your advices. I will try them out and see the
results.
I feed flakes food also, and some dry blood worms. Maybe I should try
feed less amount as well.

thanks
Jenny

I have one adult bristlenose in a 40 gallon tank. He/ she is 3 years old and
close to maximum size, 5in / 12cm or so. They don't grow very quickly
unless you have lots of food for them = lots of algae.

They also gnaw on pieces of wood, and I've read that they should have wood
fiber in their diet to keep them healthy.

Limnophile

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|| How large do the Bristle Nose Plecos get? I have marbled Plecos, 3
|| in my 75 gallon tank and they are doing fine and after 2 years are
|| less than 4 inches. However, I have lost several in my 10 gallon
|| tanks. I don't know why. All my tanks' fish get flake food. One of
|| the 10 gallon tanks had lots of algae. I like having a variety of
|| scavengers, but would hate to buy more plecos for the 10 gallon tanks
|| and have them die or get too large.
||
|| dick

Ive had a bristlenose for 3 years, still 2.5 inches, and a rubberlipped at
2.0 and I love 'em...

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is that better??