Diatoms

KurtG wrote:

Can you post a pic and send a link? (Or, just email it to me.) I'm
curious because I've been battling hair algae for quite a while and I
think I'm starting to win (touch wood). I'll do the same.

I'll do some cleanup work this weekend and send you a shot or two. Right now,
most of the front glass is covered. We moved my mother-in-law into assisted
living two weeks ago, and we've been trying to empty out her condo. On top of
that, I started a new job last week. Anyway, I'll set up a canister filter up,
scrape the glass, and get a few shots when the water clears.

George Patterson
If you torture the data long enough, eventually it will confess
to anything.

Wayne Sallee wrote:
use a tooth brush to keep it down. Use the tooth
brush by quickly moving it in a side to side motion, like your trying to
blow the hair algae off.

Thanks for the tooth brush idea. I did that last night and it worked
great. I have some really nice coraline algae growing under the dying
hair algae. I still have more to do, but I'll let the tank settle again.

--Kurt

Ok, sounds like you might be doing too much at a
time. Don't add the extra filter, just reach in and
pull out a little hair algae, and then remove some
more the next day, and so on.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets


George Patterson wrote on 5/17/2007 8:37 PM:
Wayne Sallee wrote:
Do they not have hiding places so that when you put your hand in
there, they have sufficient places to feel safe?

They have tons of hidy-holes, but I have to hang a filter unit on the
tank to clear the trash out that gets stirred up during this. I suspect
that some of them make a break for it during this time. One time it will
be a firefish; the next time a chromis.

I've got about 120 pounds of live rock, plus a rats nest of dead elkhorn
coral for a small forest in a 125 gallon tank. When I put a scraper in
to scrape the glass, everybody disappears.

George Patterson
If you torture the data long enough, eventually it will confess
to anything.

I tried a batch of this, and then switch to PhosBan. I changed stores sell do not sell RowaPhos salt. Then, the original, they quit sell my salt, so I ordered the RowaPhos from other places. Should be here in the next few days.