Looking closely at my sand, I can see algae on it. How can I get rid of it? Just turn the sand around?
Why does the sand have algae?
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Yes, as Vicki Sue Robinson said:
"Turn the sand around!
(Love to hear percussion!)
Turn it upside down!
Turn it up! Turn it up! Turn it up! Turn it up!"
I often drag the edge of a credit card over the surface-- 'cause I never disturb my substrate...
(back-up group sings: "Never disturb my substrate!
Never disturb my substrate!")
Also, nothing eliminates algae from the gravel better than a layer of dried leaves as leaf litter lying over it.
"Turn the sand around!
(Love to hear percussion!)
Turn it upside down!
Turn it up! Turn it up! Turn it up! Turn it up!"
I often drag the edge of a credit card over the surface-- 'cause I never disturb my substrate...
(back-up group sings: "Never disturb my substrate!
Never disturb my substrate!")
Also, nothing eliminates algae from the gravel better than a layer of dried leaves as leaf litter lying over it.
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but you may want to do a search on blue-green algae or cyanobacteria
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but you may want to do a search on blue-green algae or cyanobacteria
Well, somewhere said that it is cause by bad lighting. think it might be one of the bulbs I have in the front of the tank because it is 18.000K. So, I got the original bulb that was in there when I got the tank, which is 9,325K. I did keep the other 2 6500K bulbs in. Looking at it closer, it looks just green. I moved some of the sand around a bit.
Bellbottom pants, nehru jackets and disco: three things they'll never bring back!
Eh? What? They aren't! Get back! They couldn't be! Oh, they are...
Dead dried beech leaves litter the gravel in a couple of my tanks. I really like it. But I like "golden" peatwater too...
Rolling that gravel over lightly is a fine countermove. You got more K-rating than you can use there! Keep the "daylight" hours to ten or fewer. Otocinclus catfish graze algae off gravel as well as off glass or leaves...
Eh? What? They aren't! Get back! They couldn't be! Oh, they are...
Dead dried beech leaves litter the gravel in a couple of my tanks. I really like it. But I like "golden" peatwater too...
Rolling that gravel over lightly is a fine countermove. You got more K-rating than you can use there! Keep the "daylight" hours to ten or fewer. Otocinclus catfish graze algae off gravel as well as off glass or leaves...