Black beard algae caused by NLS???

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I have a 75gal with a 10" Midas hybrid (rose queen or something of the sort). The tank has been set up for approx. 7 months. The substrate is granite pea gravel and there is a flower pot, piece of drift wood, a couple river rocks, and a few silk plants (he likes to drag them around).

I had been feeding him a mix of Omega One and Hikari pellets along with freeze dried krill, earthworms, etc. NO FEEDER FISH.
I just began to put NLS Jumbo Fish Formula (floating) into his pellet mix because everyone always goes on how good it is.

Since introduction of this food, what appears to be BBA is growing on the drift wood, silk plants, and rocks.

Nothing but food and water changes (50% per week) has gone into this tank for months (no new decore etc.) I use a Python for water changes that is also used on my other tanks but there is no sign of BBA in any of them. I also do not feed NLS to any other of my fish.

Water parameters are typically ammonia 0, nitrIte 0, nitrAte ~10ppm.
I have read about increased phosphate causing or allowing BBA to grow, could this be the reason, and from the NLS?

Anyone have any comments or similar occurances, or anything else I can look into?

Thanks,
Burt:)
 
Nobody has any comments????

Not even "NLS is the best of the best and would never cause BBA" ??? :nilly:


Anybody? I'm getting lonely here.....:cry:

Burt:)
 
ok ok, just saw this, dude. You didn't say you have real plants in the tank, so i assume you are real plant free. That would mean that your tank will still have nutrients for other plants ie. algae in your tank. So, if you want to get rid of algae without using algacide (don't recommend it). Then you will either have to do more water changes yeah, nitrate at about your level is low, but will still have the effect of algae food. You should also check for phosphates, iron level (some members said it's good algae food). Or, you can do what i do and that is plant with heavy volumes of fast growng plants like eel grass or anubias in pots. your fish may chomp down on the eel grass so anubias may be your choice. plants take up excess nutrients that otherwise are used by algae. Anubias are tough, and not good tasting, so my fish don't chomp on them. I also have a pleco that i use to eat up any algae still growing. For your silk plants, you can take them out, soak them in hot water with salt for a couple of hours, and then rinse them out and wash off any that slimes off. Having said that, do i have algae in my tank? Yes i do. but, i really don't care too much or mind since they are under control.
 
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