the wood was bought from a lfs in the detroit area almost 2 years ago, it was in my 55 gallon community tank with no problems until this tank was setup in early december. This outbreak started about 2-3 weeks ago, their have been no changes except a rubber nosed pleco that was bought to help keep some of the other algae under control
Help! Can anyone identify this algae
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I cleaned all of the sh%* off of the wood right after my last post and this is the growth since then, I have stepped up my water changes to 10 gal daily, shortened the amount of time my 48" lights are on by 1 hr on either end, and monitered the parameters every day now, im still reading ammonia, nitrate, and nitrite 0ppm with a water hardness around 100ppm the only change is my ph has spiked way up to around 7.4 normally it ranges from 6.6 to 6.8 depending on the frequency of the water changes. Today I added a phosphate removal pad as well as a second water softening pad to my xp3 and turned to flow up to full. I have considered java moss to cover some brick work in the corners would that help at all cleaning this up or am I going to have to go with the cae?
03-01-07upaquariest;717175;717175 said:
09:13 am'
hello everyone, i'm tyl089 and new to the site, and this is my first post, and from one i can see of the "algae", i think they are called tuft algae, and i have it too in my 50 gallon tank. I think they are combination of bacteria and algae and grows on my drift wood as well as the gravel of my tank. My two plecos don't eat it, and i usually leave the stuff alone on my drift wood, and bury the stuff on the gravels when i vacum the tank when i change my water every other week. I think some of the live bearing snails will eat it because i don't have it in my 20 gallon tank even though it's also brightly lit like my 55.
heres a little bit of a update, i posted on several other forums and recieved the a couple promising leads the one that I am think I am going to pursue is under the assumption that the stuff is Blue Green Algae (BGA) which apparently isnt true alga, more of a bacteria that photosynthesizes. I am modifying one persons suggestion a little but this is how i plan to proceed. I have a 35 gallon tub that I am planning on setting up next weekend to age my water, but until then i think i am going to fill it with water add medication (erythromycin) to kill the bacteria and hope. I have added a phosphate control pad so hopefully this will help reduce the nutrients in the water for the growth. I am also going to add some java moss as soon as i can find some that doesnt look like it is about to die. Let me know what you think of this plan or if it is fatally flawed
It is not a blue green slime algae. Which looks like thisupaquariest;729615;729615 said:
What you have is a bacterial outbreak, which given time to run its course will disappear. If you want to get rid of it, the best way is simply just to put the wood into scalding hot water.
http://www.cichlid-forum.com/articles/driftwood.php
What's that fuzz on my driftwood?
Quite often after driftwood is added to an aquarium, a white almost transparent fuzz will grow on it. This fuzz can appear several weeks to several months after the driftwood is added to the aquarium. Popular thinking is this fuzz is either a fungus or a mold. Either way it's harmless, unfortunately it's not pleasing to look at. Some people have had luck just brushing it off. Others have had luck by introducing algae eating fish, as they will actually eat it. Neither technique will guarantee preventing this fuzz from recurring. The important thing is to have faith, as it will eventually disappear.
What's that fuzz on my driftwood?
Quite often after driftwood is added to an aquarium, a white almost transparent fuzz will grow on it. This fuzz can appear several weeks to several months after the driftwood is added to the aquarium. Popular thinking is this fuzz is either a fungus or a mold. Either way it's harmless, unfortunately it's not pleasing to look at. Some people have had luck just brushing it off. Others have had luck by introducing algae eating fish, as they will actually eat it. Neither technique will guarantee preventing this fuzz from recurring. The important thing is to have faith, as it will eventually disappear.
as ive stated earlier, this is not a new piece of wood, it was transfered from an old tank, as was alot of other things, gravel, bio filtration, lighting i never had this problem in the old tank. The wood was in that tank for almost 2 yrs. But anyways the drift wood has been in a rubbermade tub submerged in a 5% bleach sulution since Friday evening the tub has also been blacked out to since someone suggested that this bacteria, photosynthisizes. I plan on opening the container and possibly putting the wood back into my tank midweek. Ill update more then
