Hello,
I am new to this list, but I have been keeping plants in my tank for
several years now with mostly good results. Recently though, I have
had an outbreak of an algae I have not seen previously. It is growing
on the upper portions of Val and crinum leaves, and a little on melon
sword leaves. It has bluish green, sometimes branching filaments.
Most of it can be pulled off fairly easily, although I think I am
just removing the bulk of the algae, not the base. It feels coarse.
Anyone know what this is? Is it "the dreaded Oedinum (sp?) green
thread algae (feels like horse hair)"? If so, how can I control it?
All plants are growing rapidly, shrimp are reproducing regularly.
Setup is : 55 gal tank
Two F40 Chroma 50's and two Chroma 75's nearly 6
months old
CO2 via yeast generator into power head
Two sponge filters on power heads
3" gravel enriched with red clay
1 Gourami, 1 dwarf rainbow, 1 Oto, 1 small pleco or
paroto, 30-40 ghost shrimp
Uncountable burrowing snails
30-40 Hygrophila stems
4 huge watersprite rooted in substrate + several
floating
1 Melon sword
150 or so stems of unknown bunch plants
30 stems of anacharis
1 crypt
duckweed
1 crinum (new, probably brought this plague)
25 vals (Italian?)
Bunch of Java moss
large clump of Java fern
As I said, I have not seen this type of algae before, so any
information would be appreciated.
Steve Garinger
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