Re: Bleach and red algae; SAE

To: Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com
Subject: Re: Bleach and red algae; SAE
From: "John Y. Ching" <jyching at watnow_uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 1995 23:01:58 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <199508091939.PAA28186 at looney_actwin.com>

> Paul said...
> >I've been harping that y'all should not tolerate red algae
> >or any other kind of hair algae, and that you can get rid of it forever with
> >5% bleach.
> >---------------------------
> 
I tried using bleach on some of the worst affected plants. Although the 
algae is easily killed and none of the plants seem to be hurt, the 
algae comes back in a week or so. I guess I will have to up root all of 
the plants and treat all of them. I probably also have to empty the tank 
and bleach everything, including the filter and start all over to be sure 
to get rid of all the red algae spores. This sounds like a drastic way to 
solve the problem. Any comments?

 John Y. Ching (jyching at watnow_uwaterloo.ca)    |
 Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Lab	| 
 Department of Systems Design Engineering      	| 
 University of Waterloo, Canada            	|