I got a piece of Malay. driftwood that in my 55 gallon tank with my jar. I am starting to see some sort of hair on it. It about half an inch long to little spot, and it black. Looking like human hair but i think thinner, could also look like the fan built up dusk type of thing. Bought it from a store who said they sandblast clean cook it whatever on the list. What is the problem and how can i get rid of it. Thanks. Plus no other fish are in the tank just the jar at about 8 inch, with sand substrate and fluval 404 canister.
Malay. driftwood hairy thing question.
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sounds like black beard algae/black brush algae. thrives in situations where there is a good amount of light and fish that are messy eaters. feed a little less, increase your water changes, and if you use prime to dechlorinate, pour your dose of prime onto the algae when you do your water changes. the prime will kill it, and better tank maintenance will keep it from returning.
wataugachicken;1203496; said:
Deos it? I didnt know that. I got hair algea from putting a peice of java on bogwood into my tank. I have some fake plants that were getting covered in it and I treated them by adding a few steralizing tablets to a bucket of water and soaking the plants in that and it worked pretty well. I will try it with the prime next time, mind you primes a bit more expensive to use than sterilizing tablets.
it does! that is my very own personal discovery. i have the same problem in my oscar tank at the moment. pour the prime on a different spot each time you do a water change, and the algae will die back. actually, within an hour of contact, it turns bright red, then it starts to die. it grows slowly, so no need to kill it all at once. although if you had a spray bottle laying around, you could pour some of the prime into the bottle, and then spray it on the affected areas out of the water. that way you can cover a larger area but not waste so much expensive prime.