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Re: [APD] BGA, antibiotics, and cloudy water



ok, well the BGA sucks up alot of stuff that plants would normally eat.

so what you are probably seeing is dead BGA, which makes a mess... or
some kind of bloom. That maracyn cannot kill every kind of bacteria.

I dealt with it as described on the box, then massive changes of water
until the tank returned to normal.


On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 00:42:54 -0300, Benjamin Hong <bkhong at rogers_com> wrote:
> I always seem to have a question...
> I have just completed an antibiotic treatment for BGA (I didn't know what
> else to do as pH is somewhat acidic, phosphates non-existant, and Nitrates
> extremely scarce, too).  I used Maracyn.  By day 4 of the treatment the
> water had begun to turn cloudy and now, the final day, it is quite hazy.
> It's not green, either.  All I can think is two possibilities, but I want to
> double check to be sure: either it's
> 
> A) just dead BGA (though it doesn't look like BGA, whatever that means, and
> my other tank didn't have this problem), or
> 
> B) it's a bacterial bloom.  This, of course, strikes me as odd as the
> antibiotic treatment is not quite over.
> 
> I've read that blooms should be monitored, but left alone as they are
> indicative of a recycling and will sort themselves out.  Of course, I've
> learned not to trust everything I read, and this one has me a bit puzzled.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Thanks!
> Ben H.
> 
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