Hair Algae!

Jay said:
It gives you 53ppm if your pH is 6.4 and your KH is 7 and the CO2 is being injected. We can talk in another thread about believing CO2 levels based on pH KH testing and charts. :)

IME, If bba is growing, spreading and being agressive you are not injecting enough CO2.

Jay
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Jay, with a Ph of 6.6 and a KH of 7, according to chucks calculator that gives me 53ppm of C02. I have been double dosing excel and I dropped my Ph from 6.6 to 6.5 which gives me 66ppm of C02. It has been almost a week and my hair algae has turned red then white and now has discinigrated :dance: . I have lost a 3 corys but everyone else seem ok, they are eating and no sighns of C02 poisining.

I have added almost a week now, 3 hygro poly, one hornwort and one Limnophila. They are starting to kick in but still not enough for my N to drop from 20. My BBA is still thriving on my substrate and I am still removing all affected. I will give the double dose of excel a few days more and see how it affects the BBA. If I drop my Ph lower again from 6.5 to 6.4 to give me 84ppm of C02 and still double dose the excel, how safe is that for my fish?


Thanks,

Terry.
 
Jay said:
It gives you 53ppm if your pH is 6.4 and your KH is 7 and the CO2 is being injected. We can talk in another thread about believing CO2 levels based on pH KH testing and charts. :)
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Read about this with great interest on the other sites and would love you guys to start a discussion about it.

Roan
 
Terry...

I am not advocating that your CO2 level be at 85ppm to defeat the algae, I am saying that I can crank my C02 up, while watching for fish stress, and if I test I see a big number. It is the test result I am skeptical of. Does that make sense to you.

I am also skeptical that a hobby test kit will give you accurate uptake readings.

The existing BBA has to go, pick, prune vacuum. Hard work stay with it. Is it growing and spreading? Do you have good circulation around the whole tank. Co2 misting with good circulation helps.

Sounds like the hair algae is on the ropes. :)

Jay
 
I have a fluval 304 at one end and a eheim 2227 wet/dry at the other end(the air vent on the wet/dry is capped and is operating as a standard canister filter). My C02 reactor is a Aqua Medic with a 201 powerhead running it. I want to get a different C02 reactor, the Aqua medic 1000 I believe would have better circulation plus it is inline and less equipment in the tank.

Terry.
 
WARNING>>>GRAPHIC PICTURES OF ALGAE

Pardon me not being an algae expert but is this hair algea or what?


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I had an outbreak of this stuff something fierce... back in spring/summer last year. My Dojo's loved hanging out in it. I tried almost everything... lowered light duration, cut back on fertalizers, did some water changes, bought a phosphate pillow, bought a bunch of SAE's, etc... It all helped but the infamous algae continued. I tried "algae destroyer advanced" and that helped too, but my java moss still wanted to sprout out with the stuff. I ended up removing all the java moss in my tank and that particular type of algae hasnt shown itself since.
 
yea...that looks like the stuff that was growing in my tank. Same color, a little less vascular though...maybe my hair algae isn't as developed. I am keen on tryin out the rosey barbs since they supposedly take care of this kind of algae, if it is in face hair algae.
 
The algae in the photo looks similar to the staghorn algae I had when I first set up my 75g. Mine was a little darker in color. I had it on my plants, rocks, substrate, wood and glass. It was removed by spending three days cleaning up different sections of the tank. Anything covered with the algae was bleached or thrown away.
 
Terry, you have no idea how glad I'm sure everyone is to here that. :) :) :)
Now don't slack off. Keep up with your regimen of dosing, cleaning etc. Keep using the excel.
Pat yourself on the back. You deserve it.

Len
 
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