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Re: BG Algae (was Re: Scheel's Atlas available on eBay)
>Doug Cushing wrote:
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>> And on another topic altogether, I have a question concerning algae. I
>> noticed your signature line had a "learn to live with it" blurb not to long
>> ago and I have done just that for the most part. The least part, and the one
>> that bothers me the most, is Blue Green algae (which I've read is not an
>> algae at all but a bacteria). I seem to have developed a decidedly
>> pernicious strain and it is spreading to all my tanks. Mechanical removal
>> has been a losing battle and I've also read that erithytrhomiacin (sp.) can
>> stop it. I'm wondering if it is effective and if so, will it affect the
>> tank's inhabitants (fish and plants)?
>
>It is an algae, but shares a lot of animal characteristics, so is also
>something of a bacterium. Sort of like the "green water" flagellates,
>*Euglena* species.
>
Close but no cigar Wright. Blue-green algae is another name for
cyanobacteria. These are single celled prokaryotes (ie. lacking a
membrane bound nucleus) that have chlorophyl and other photosynthetic
pigments. The latter are not in chloroplasts as they are in true
algae and other plants but in depressions in the membrane of the
organism. They form long filamentous colonies, thus giving the
resemblance to algae.
Barry
Barry J. Cooper Phone: (607)253-3336
Dept. Biomedical Sciences email: bjc3 at cornell_edu
College of Veterinary Medicine
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
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