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Loving your BGA to Death
Till last night, I had a BGA problem in a 55 gal. fish tank I maintain
for my wife. She has a large cichlid which tore up all the java fern, and
shortly there after the tank was covered with large slimy colonies of the
stuff. Yesterday I found an e-mail from the archives from someone who fed
his snails extra food (composted dried liver I believe), the tank thrived
and the BGA died off. I had tried floating water fern, but the plants grew
too huge both below and above water and had to be pulled out, and the BGA
just grew all over them. Last weekend I placed several water hyacinths and
water lettuce in the tank which the BGA just sneered at, covering the
suspended roots in slimy coats. So after reading that e-mail, I returned
home last night, mixed up a dilute batch of Epiphytes Delight fertilizer
(one designed for bromeliads & orchids containing the major and minor
nutrients), and poured some in the tank. By the time dinner was finished,
you could see the BGA disappearing from the tank! I feel like the hero in
a bad scifi movie after slaying The Blob! I guess I'll just have to start
feeding my wife's fish a lot more food! Perhaps I should stop calling it
my wife's tank too. ;-)
Happy growing everyone!
John Phillips