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Re: BBA

To: Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com
Subject: Re: BBA
From: sae at arts_ubc.ca (Olga Betts)
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 11:52:29 -0700

>Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 13:24:11 -0400 (EDT)
>From: busko at stsci_edu (Ivo Busko)
>Subject: Re: Some Pictures and Question

>I had an infestation of this same thing in my tank, I call it BBA for black
>brush algae. I read somewhere that BBA likes iron. I controlled it by
>decreasing the PMDD dose, that I figure now was way above the reasonable
>level for my tank. I was overdosing based on iron test kit readings that
>were too low.

Steve and Ivo,

BBA definately does not like a decent CO2 level. With some SAEs and CO2
added it should be easily controlled.

Olga
in Vancouver

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