Tank Nuking.... BBA Eradication

Continuing the Eradication of BBA thread, I've taken down my 29g that was
pretty infested and did a total tank nuking with clorox.... I was hesitant,
but that larger than life thread about it earlier, kinda persuaded me to
look and see that I indeed needed to do something so that we could have our
tank back.

The gravel was furry, the walls were furry, so I pulled all the fish, that's
where I learned I had a new Oto, pics are available, and will probably be
posted in alt.binaries.aquaria in a few.

After all life were pulled, I did a 90% water change, cleaning most of the
gunk that was under the substrate, etc... started running water back in,
stirred up gravel and washed it, then added 1g of bleach, and ran the
filters for an hour, killed my biofilter on accident, but the filters were
covered in the BBA anyway, so no harm no foul..

2 days later, I did a waterchange, mixed up substrate, all the white fuzz is
gone, been vacuumed several times, so I think it's ok.

4 days later, the MTS have all risen and been transferred to another tank,
they're tough boogers...

4 more days, and I'll be adding ammonia.... Time for a fishless cycle....

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is that better??

"RedForeman ©®" wrote in message ...

Continuing the Eradication of BBA thread

I missed that thread, and it's a bit late for you ;-) but in case
you've missed it, here's a very interesting article on killing BBA:
http://www.malawicichlidhomepage.com..._peroxide.html

"RedForeman ©®" wrote in message

Continuing the Eradication of BBA thread

I missed that thread, and it's a bit late for you ;-) but in case
you've missed it, here's a very interesting article on killing BBA:
http://www.malawicichlidhomepage.com..._peroxide.html

No problem, but what I saw on that page looked more like hair algae, BBA in
my tank looked like tufts versus hair.... meaning it branched out from one
spot, as in a sword plant kinda way... not like a ball of thread...

IMO, I can't decipher between one algae and another, but following that BBA
thread before,I searched and found a different algae than the page you
supplied, and I can't find a single link with a picture today... I'll search
more on Monday.... Happy Easter...

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"RedForeman ©®" wrote in message ...

No problem, but what I saw on that page looked more like hair algae, BBA in
my tank looked like tufts versus hair.... meaning it branched out from one
spot, as in a sword plant kinda way... not like a ball of thread...

His algae would be called Staghorn algae, but it appears it's the same
alga as BBA.
I don't know the exact life cycle of these algae, but if you have BBA
and your tank gets an ammonium spike, they become Staghorn. These
beauties started as a thin black line of tufts along the edges of my
Vallisnerias, and stayed that way for a year - then I added
house-plant fertilizer:
http://mikes-machine.mine.nu/algae_g...#Staghorn_Alga

This isn't as strange as it may sound - red algae typically alternate
between a haploid vegetatively reproducing generation and a diploid
sexually reproducing generation, which often look completely
different. Presumably the Staghorn stage and the BBA stage are the
different generations of Compsopogon.

Well, that's my interpretation of what happened, anyway.

Hmmm... Should probably as about this on the algae-l list.

IMO, I can't decipher between one algae and another, but following that BBA
thread before,I searched and found a different algae than the page you
supplied, and I can't find a single link with a picture today... I'll search
more on Monday.... Happy Easter...

You can have a look at the pictures on my site too:
http://mikes-machine.mine.nu/algae_gallery.htm . There's mainly
Cladophora there, though.