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[APD] Dust algae with skunky smell
Hello, just wondering if anyone knows what this is. I've had for a long
time a green dust algae that grows along the glass of the tank, never been a
real problem and easily dealt with by a brushing with a cleaning magnet
every week or so. I've also had some minor hair (the super fast growing
hairy ball clump stuff) algae in the tank but again no real problem (easy
removal). But lately all the hair algae has gone but the green dust stuff
has come in with a vengeance, it comes back daily and now has a very strong
skunky (wet seaweed) smell. Not sure if it's a different variety of what I
had before but it's extremely quick in coming back. Anyone else had this
smelly stuff and know what it is and how to slow it down. Got a UV filter
attached and that slows it down but I don't like running it 7/24.
I've got a 90gal heavily planted tank with DIY CO2 (which does give me the
CO2 concentration target, 2 x 3L CO2 bottles changed alternate weeks :P) and
a medium fish load. Dose with Nitrates and Phosphates every other day to
keep good levels along with TMG. Haven't done any recent tank changes.
Might have been while I was away on vacation for a week but that was two
months ago. I though the large building was just a weeks worth of dust
accumilated due to no cleaning and less fertilization.. but it's been bad
ever since. I don't mind some algae (from what I've seen it's harder with a
good fish load to eradicate) and never went on a crusade to get rid of it
all but this one is getting annoying.
Thanks
Pete.
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