Re: [APD] Aquatic-Plants Digest, Vol 38, Issue 12

[Thomas Barr <tcbiii at yahoo_com>]

You got lucky.
Many have messed with it for several months with no such
success.

The other agressive alternative method:
Blackout for 3-4 days
Bomb with full dose of Excel.
Do daily 80% water changes and scrub right prior to the massive
water change.

That's worked also.
But many seek lazy ways out or just add a pill of a chemical to
solve all their issues rather than understandiung why they have
it in the first place.

Generally GDA is pretty much not going to terrorize you if
things are kept up on. The nelegect needed is not a lot and it
tends to grow on higher light tanks, low light tanks seldom have
such issues, which is a good reason to use less light in the
first place, everything is easier, but slower.

I've told folks this, George Booth has told folks this for many
years and it falls on death ears.

Less pruning, nice growth, the most wiggle room with dosing etc,
less algae issues.

After the GDA goes through it's cycle, it produces a resting
spore. Then will not grow again.

I'm not precisely certain about the inducement.
I can produce it by neglect for a week or two and a little
uprooting of plants etc. Sunlight also seems to encourage it in
otherwise normal tanks.

Low NO3 likely helps trigger it with a little NH4.
But that's just a guess.
 


Regards, 
Tom Barr

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> Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 20:34:34 -0600
> From: "Mark R" <oldsan at gmail_com>
> Subject: Re: [APD] How to get rid of Alage on glass walls
> To: "aquatic plants digest" <aquatic-plants at actwin_com>
> 
>  Almost every high light tank I've ever set up has gone
> through "green
> glass" in it's initial stages and it always disappears about 4
> - 6 weeks
> later. I used to scrape it off every week or so, more recently
> I've left it
> alone as suggested here - same result in either case, it
> disappears (and/or
> turns brown) in 4 - 6 weeks.
> 
> On 10/14/06, Vaughn Hopkins <hoppycalif at yahoo_com> wrote:
> >
> > I don't know why it works either, but it does work.  As I
> said, I
> > have used the method and it worked, as long as I didn't rub
> or scrape
> > the algae off into the water.  The first time I tried it on
> my 29
> > gallon tank, I had lots of common pond snails in the tank. 
> They ate
> > the stuff as fast as they could, growing bigger than I have
> ever seen
> > them.  But, that didn't stop the life cycle from completing.
>  This
> > last time I have three yoyo loaches, so no snails to snack
> on it. It
> > remains to be seen if it comes back this time.
> >
> > I also found that the stuff began to cover all of the plants
> in the
> > tank, as well as the glass.  Everything was covered in green
> fuzz.
> > When the life cycle was finished the stuff vanished on the
> plants,
> > probably by the snails and the guppies eating it.  It is
> certainly a
> > weird algae.
> >
> > Vaughn H.
> >
> > On Oct 14, 2006, at 3:10 PM, Dennis Dietz wrote:
> >
> > > I've never fully understood why this works.  So this
> species only
> > > produces spores for a short period and then not again
> until the next
> > > bloom?  What is its trigger?  Does disturbing the algae
> before the 2-3
> > > weeks are up cause it to produce more spores...it must
> otherwise it
> > > would go away in a few weeks regardless.  If, for example,
> some tank
> > > condition re-emerges that will cause a bloom, after the
> initial bloom
> > > (say one week after), do you then have to wait 3-4 weeks? 
> In other
> > > words, is it only mechanical disturbances that re-trigger
> the bloom or
> > > can chemical causes, say low CO2 or an NH4 spike, restart
> the life
> > > cycle.  One thing I have never quite understood is why
> would this
> > > species only produce spores for that initial short period?
>  Also, if
> > > eradication is so dependent on not disturbing anything,
> would not
> > > plants
> > > rubbing against the glass or fish like otos cause another
> bloom?
> > >
> > > Dennis
> > >
> >
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