algae

Anyone need one for their tank? Come get him! I am located in New Freedom, Pm me if interested.

Hi, I have a 50G mbuna tank setup with rocks, wood and sand substrate. My problem is that I keep getting really strong algae growths in my sand and a lot of trapped air. It looks like nice health green algae so shouldn't cause health problems but around my rocks the growths are really bad red...

So in my 55 the brown algae is one but now I have super growth of green algae. Is the best solution for it just to get a Pleco? Also, is a clown loach best fo uneaten food?

One of my clients gave me today two very small CAEs. I don't want them. Anyone want them? Let me know and I'll bring them tomorrow. Right now, they're in a 5-G bucket, so.. bring something to put them in. You can't have my bucket! :beamup:

So in my 3 wk old 55g mbuna tank I am getting a bloom of brown algae on he decorations. I don't mind green, but the brown is ugly. O the questions re why and I you have a remedy?

Greetings, I am setting up a 40 gallon breeder tank to transfer some of my African cichlids to it. Would like to add some rocks to it to give them some divisions, hide ceramic caves and just make it prettier. :D If anyone has any that you could spare, sell or 'loan me' for an indefinite...

Free to good home. Very active and lively. Eats everything. Getting rid of him because he picks on my 2 new bichirs. I live in Brandywine, but work in Upper Marlboro. Let me know ASAP. HE IS FREE. COME GET HIM!!!

Price is hardly everything, interested in a few words of wisdom from those whom have been doing this long enough to have some.:D

My buddy has a 40gallon tank stocked with 11 tropical community fish filled with well water kept at 72 degrees lit by a basic strip light over the glass top. The tank was cycled and has been operational for two months now. He assures me that the filter is adequate for up to a 60 gallon tank...

My buddy has a 40gallon tank stocked with 11 tropical community fish filled with well water kept at 72 degrees lit by a basic strip light over the glass top. The tank was cycled and has been operational for two months now. He assures me that the filter is adequate for up to a 60 gallon tank...

Feel compelled to re-gift these. Peter (rsretep) gave then to me a few months back, and while they're cool they just don't really fit in with my S. American species. Are very healthy and energetic, and play well with others (currently with juvenile discus, adult keyhole cichlids and a mob of...

Found this is surprisingly cogent and useful: http://www.wetwebmedia.com/ca/volume_6/volume_6_3/fwalgae.html

Have a recently set up 29 with a couple of 20W grow-lights, and there's brown alage on pretty much everything but the two angelfish. Only tank I've ever set up with plant substrate (aquarium plants co.) and its the only one I've ever seen 'bloom' like this. Too much phosphorus or some other...

I have an algae problem in my JD's tank. I've been wiping/scraping it off the front of the tank but within a couple of days there's a huge amount again. My JD is under 2" currently. Is there anything I can safely put in there to eat the algae? I was thinking about a larger snail or something. It...

In my 65g mbuna tank I had been keeping a 12"+ common pleco, but the mbuna weren't very nice to him, so I moved him to our 90g planted discus tank, which he loves. Surprise, surprise, I've since had an outbreack of powdery brown algae all over the glass and rocks. It is easily scraped off the...

Hey all, Won that 5 gallon and a bunch of plants at the last meeting so I made it a planted tank. I just moved everything into a 10g tonight because I wanted to go a little bigger... I'll probably end up turning one of my 55's into a planted once I can afford a light. My question right now is...

I have another algae problem and dont how to handle it. My tank is like green no algae build up on the wall or anything but the water is just green. And i have done water changes and i have added some Acurel f I donr know where to go from here. Could it be algae build up in my sand, thats the...

Just wanted to show an example of the algae eating capabilities of amano shrimp. Piece of wood with moss infested with bba: 2 days later after being added to a tank with 50 amano shrimp (subadult/1" my holding tank for sales):

I am getting a lot of algae build up now that i have fish in the tank the light stays on most of the day and the moonlights come on at night. With 5 Labs and 1 Johanni as of now am I able to get any kind of snail or pleco in there to help with the algae? Thanks for the help guy!

I'm having a bit of trouble with green algae in my breeder tanks. My other tanks are so inundated with anubias that I couldn't help but throw a plant in each of the 10 (relatively) newly setup tanks I have in my workshop. Between the plants and the gravel I used to "seed" each tank, I think I...