"Alan Silver" wrote in message
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I'm wondering if there has been something added to the water
recently....where are you based? I'm in Reading....

I'm in Manchester, so we're on different water supplies. I don't think
our water has changed, I've had problems with this sort of algae ever
since I started keeping fish. I think my problem is a lot of light and
nothing to use it up. I don't have any plants in there as the Malawis
would probably look on them as salad, so the algae has free run on any
nutrients.

Thanks for the reply

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Alan Silver
(anything added below this line is nothing to do with me)

Hi Alan,
How's the algae fight going? I checked for phosphates today which came out
at 0.25 so not much to go on there.

I noticed if I loosen the algae myself the fish will then eat
it....obviously too lazy to scrape at it themselves but appreciative if I do
all the hard work.

Gill