Udon, Soba, and the Noodles

[Hendre]

I use flourish as well, I still need to do the rounds on algae using a kitchen sponge. At least when I put sand in it won't be needed for the bottom

 

[magpie]

The DW likes to hold on to algae. I get some here and there. I figure as long as it's generally balanced overall some algae is normal.

 

[Hendre]

Cool, I get double duty then.

Supposedly if your plants are happy and you have a good light balance algae shouldn't take over.

Mine takes a month or more to be really noticeable

 

[magpie]

The algae? Hmmm... Not sure I notice a trend with time per se in the large tank. I get it most in my Betta tank for some reason - my smallest tank at 5 gallons. It's that green stuff that sticks to the surfaces of things. It builds slowly, I pick it off. I might decrease the light period for that tank to help but it's not a huge issue so i don't bother.

 

[Hendre]

The algae? Hmmm... Not sure I notice a trend with time per se in the large tank. I get it most in my Betta tank for some reason - my smallest tank at 5 gallons. It's that green stuff that sticks to the surfaces of things. It builds slowly, I pick it off. I might decrease the light period for that tank to help but it's not a huge issue so i don't bother.

I had that as well, in my betta tank.

I have some brown diats and occasional green diatoms, as well as some brownish hair stuff on my wood. Not sure what it is

 

[Vancouver_98683]

The algae? Hmmm... Not sure I notice a trend with time per se in the large tank. I get it most in my Betta tank for some reason - my smallest tank at 5 gallons. It's that green stuff that sticks to the surfaces of things. It builds slowly, I pick it off. I might decrease the light period for that tank to help but it's not a huge issue so i don't bother.

The manufacture does not market Flourish as an algaecide. Even though it's a side effect from using . Read up on it when you get the chance. I use to dose it all the time and never had algae issues.

 

[magpie]

Cool! I didn't know that.

Yeah, I get the brown hairy stuff on my DW too!

Also some occasionally on leaf edges, esp. older leaves.

 

[Polyaddict86]

He's such a dork!

Here it is just so everyone else can get a laugh out of my oh-so-vicious Doberman.

Here's another one of him from this past weekend. A friend built this sandbox for his dogs to dig in, but I think Silas doesn't quite understand the purpose, even though he's enjoying the hell out of it. LOL

Love your dog

 

[Hendre]

Cool! I didn't know that.

Yeah, I get the brown hairy stuff on my DW too!

Also some occasionally on leaf edges, esp. older leaves.

I have had a few little bits on the front glass and I need to scratch it off with my nails. Although it isn't too bad

 

[magpie]

I do use a magnet scraper maybe every other water change for the glass !