Hi Friends,
I hope its wrong to discuss aquarium products here - Kindly excuse me if this is against the rules.
Just wanted some advice and wanted to know if anybody has used this product called Algone (
http://www.algone.com/) ? Is it good and effective ?
Kindly advice.
Thanks and Regards
Kush
Algone does nothing.....It claims to help with your nitrates, but Nitrates are something that people worry too much about.... check your Phosphates and then do the things for your tank that you can control once you start adding chemicals to the tank......It's an up-hill battle to control things you can't control. use nature to your advantage.
This goes for ANY ecosystem we recreate.
Provide the things that nature gives the ecosystem outside....that they don't get inside and only deal with the things that you should and can control.
Clean the glass if you need to, avoid putting your hands in the tank as much as possible, and let it be an ecosystem like it's suppose to be let the tank adjust to it's self.
We don't wait for the tank to do what it knows to do. We run and panic and check and check levels and add chemicals and the tank has to start from scratch again.
Water in nature moves and circulates (Power head, water changes)
Nature is a natural filter and feeder ( Filter system, Plants, and Food)
Nature has the perfect sun (Lighting system)
You provide this things from the wild that it can't get inside.... and let the tank and the fish do the rest.... They know what to do.
Take ALL things out of your filter and put just "Filter Floss" in it, This picks up the chunks that nature takes out, Change this often.
Use a power head and blow the junk out of the substrate for the filter to pick up. Check you home's water instead.... Fix that first. That can Help U too.
LET THE TANK DO IT"S THING, PLEASE...
You don't just run to the pharmacy every time that you have an ailment do you? you provide the things that nature made for your body that u r not taking enough of (food, water, even light and filtering your body for a few days)
In nature there are no tanks, so U have to provide the things mentioned above. That's all.
After u feel better Leave your body alone!! after you provide the things that they don't have inside....leave your tank alone!!
Then enjoy your tank....... isn't that why you started it to begin with??
PS
ALGONE DOES NOTHING........At least it's one of the more harmless things you can do to the tank. you can just put a tennis ball in your filter....It would do the same thing as Algone.
Sorry to ramble but I learned this the hard way and after killing a lot of fish.
You don't have to..... There is a place for chemicals, but why use them if you don't have to. Plus you enjoy your tank more and spend less time measuring levels, and spending your money on things like Algone.....I sure did.
Should have bought more fish or should have had a V
yuyiboy
However, might I suggest you check your water parameters first especially your phosphates before you try this product? What algae problem do you have?
