DIE ALGAE DIE!!!

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For the last year and a half i have been slowly amassing a forest of red/brown bush algae, ok now i dont mind the look but i HATE CLEANING UP after it..., i have to clean the gowddamm filter every two weeks and the sponges on my powergeads every other gowddam day, to the point that i almost dont care that the flow stops... so here is what i have done sofar...

took the rocks out and tried to pull the stuff off by hand.. didnt work, i trued scrubbing it off using bleach and a HARD bristle brush and rinced it... and no go., i could actuly pick up a 30-40lb rock by the stuff.

I got hydrogenperoxide and added a concentration that is NOT toxic to my fish and plants but to a point that it should kill the algae. well i saw bubbles and thats it... the back wall got a bit less green.

then step two was to get the a huge pot and boil the bugging rocks, well this worked to a degree, i boiled the rock for 30 min. it tryned from a brown to a bright green and then fell off in a week....


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well heres what i just did, i added a leathal concentration(half the bottle) of hydrogenperoxide to a 5gallon tub and added two rocks, right now its fizzing like a shook bottle of pepsi..., and after 10min... i can easly pull the evil crap off...


By chance dose anyone in the ontario area want about 200lb of lava rock for $60, its worth about $400...
 
RESAULT!!!! i just checked it again and look, the cap is falling off!!!!, this is one hour later in total darkness...


I WANT IT DEAD!!!,
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like i said step two is a tair doWN, AND A PLYWOOD TANK WHERE THE CAVITY IS RIGHT NOW, WITH NO MODIFICATIONS I CAN GET A 120GALLON OUT OF THE AREA...


okim going to sleep... watch it blow up on me in the night...
 
Brush algae can be easily taken care of with a 1:19 part bleach:water solution. Soak it for around 5 minutes, and the brush algae will turn white. Give it a week or so, and it will fall off and be dead. Option two (if you don't have live plants), better for you considering it has spores in your filters, and powerheads, use copper. Do a standard ich treatment for your tank, and most of the algae should die off.
 
i do have plants though...:irked:

I will try the bleach next, i was considering adding some to my solution, the algea seems to be dead, its a light red and you can easly pick it off. i would love to compleatly get rid of it but i dont want to kill all th4e plant and fish with diffrent treatments...

so to recap... bleashing it leaves the algea white, boiling it leaves it green and hydrogenperoxide leaves it pink...

I wonder what colour it will turn in the microwave and when its on fire......!!!!!:character0087: :FIREdevil

also i didnt know itg had spoars i thought that it came off in chunks floated atatched and spread that way...
 
It spreads both ways. This question would have been better suited in the planted section. I would still do the copper treatment, but at a severely reduced amount. 0.5-1.0 ppm copper.
 
Im sorry for bothering you realy i am but how dose it work???

Dosnt copper kill fish?, thats why it says not to throw in pennies into koi ponds, is it like a diffent copper solution???, is it like a copperoxide or something?

thanks for the heads up., and thankyou for moving the thread.
 
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