Algone works!
- Thread starter tcarswell
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i have used it many times and it didn't bother my cherries or my pest snails either one, there is nothing in it to harm them that i know of,.
http://www.algone.com/
Algone® enhances the aquariums ability to break down waste more effectively.
Safe for fish, plants, live rock, coral, snails, algae eaters, invertebrates, polyps, etc.
Algone® stimulates micro-bacterial activity by optimizing the dissolved oxygen content in the aquarium.
You sound like my daughterFor some of us it is
I'm trying to rid my 75 of snails and she found out what I was doing she freaked and made me promise to give them to her when I found them. If we all liked the same things it would be boring because we would not have anyone to talk about :evil_lol:
It is definitely worth a try. Give it a week. Remove the packet. Then add another every week. Then eventually once a Month. Im not sure the instructions are on the box however. Worth the money. Not to mention my algone is old old. The new stuff should probably work even better.
just a caveat
Algaecides
Common ingredients to almost all commercial algaecides are either copper
or simazine both are toxic to fish and higher plant life.The dosage needed to kill
algae without harming fish or higher plants is hard if not impossible to determine.
Dying algae may releas toxins into the water or its decomposition may deplete oxygen from the water and cause an amonia spike.
Water clearing agents
Flocculents should not be used in tanks with fish.Flocculents are positively
charged compounds that bind negatively charged particules so they bind together
and fall out of solution resulting in clearing.Since algae cells are negatively
charged Flocculents will clear green water.
Theres a possible problem tho,the gill surfaces of fish also carry a negative
charge.The Flocculentscan bind the gill filaments together destroying the gill
structure.-Anne
Algaecides
Common ingredients to almost all commercial algaecides are either copper
or simazine both are toxic to fish and higher plant life.The dosage needed to kill
algae without harming fish or higher plants is hard if not impossible to determine.
Dying algae may releas toxins into the water or its decomposition may deplete oxygen from the water and cause an amonia spike.
Water clearing agents
Flocculents should not be used in tanks with fish.Flocculents are positively
charged compounds that bind negatively charged particules so they bind together
and fall out of solution resulting in clearing.Since algae cells are negatively
charged Flocculents will clear green water.
Theres a possible problem tho,the gill surfaces of fish also carry a negative
charge.The Flocculentscan bind the gill filaments together destroying the gill
structure.-Anne
there is a liquid algae killer called algone that is toxic to inverts. i used it before learning about it and killed a bunch of ghost shrimp and snails. it does work on green water, but it also seemed to kill off beneficial bacteria and caused my tank to cycle (even after the shrimp and snails were gone). just be cautious with it is all i think anyone is saying
Keep in mind algaecides only mask the problem, not solve it. Chances are it could come back if the situation in your tank, as in whatever is favorable for the algae to grow, stay the same.
