My algae is pearling

FishyMatty

FishyMatty

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Over the course of the last 2 weeks I managed to rid myself of almost all algae, from green spot, staghorn, hair and just plain green algae.

But the left over green algae on one rock seems to be pearling with o2.
This only means that this algae is winning, soaking up nutrients and co2.
Any one ever seen algae pearl before?
 
any algea i have aside from gsa will pearl. its silly.
 
FishyMatty said:
Over the course of the last 2 weeks I managed to rid myself of almost all algae, from green spot, staghorn, hair and just plain green algae.

But the left over green algae on one rock seems to be pearling with o2.
This only means that this algae is winning, soaking up nutrients and co2.
Any one ever seen algae pearl before?
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Didn't you do the peroxide thing? Does that kill hair algae too? Did it hurt your plants?
 
PPMN said:
Didn't you do the peroxide thing? Does that kill hair algae too? Did it hurt your plants?
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The h2o2 killed all signs of green algae, green spot and hair algae. BUT, it hurt the glosso and the HC, but not too much that it couldn't bounce back.
But it killed the Limnophila aromatica and the pearl grass.

 
J double R said:
yeah my hair algae definitely pearls...
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That really sucks. That just means that your growing hair algae.
I had hair algae and staghorn for about a week and I won the battle, for now.
My tanks haven't looked this good ever. Just a little green algae on the rocks
 
my bluegreen algae slime pearls every day. drives me crazy, because the pearls get trapped under the slime... and look so cool... I love it, but know it's bad... it's spreading on my glosso now.

I've found that my quarter inch airline siphon technique will suck the algae off the gloso leaves like an oto would... which is pretty nice, although tedious.
 
mellowvision said:
my bluegreen algae slime pearls every day. drives me crazy, because the pearls get trapped under the slime... and look so cool... I love it, but know it's bad... it's spreading on my glosso now.

I've found that my quarter inch airline siphon technique will suck the algae off the gloso leaves like an oto would... which is pretty nice, although tedious.
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You mean like an oto would suck green algae not that an oto would eat BGA.
I have never seen BGA and I'm glad. It sucks that there are things that we might have to deal with someday in our tanks that has no real cause or cure.
Its a scourge.
 
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