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Old May 13th 05, 11:01 PM
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It doesn't sound like Nitrates are the problem. At 3 to 4 months old

(which
is still relatively young) I wouldn't worry TOO much, it may be a passing
fad. But do check the phosphates and also keep the feeding to a minimum.

In
a crisis period like this, I reduce the feeding to every other day, or

twice
a week (I know the fish are begging for the food but you have to remember
that relative starvation is normal in the wild!) - keep the feeding small
and only use quality feeds that are nitrate and phosphate free..

Again, I'm sorry if I missed the earlier posts, but with a heavily planted
tank, you can probably get away with 9 or 10 hours of lighting but in
theory, the higher plants should out compete the algae if they are able

to.
If you have CO2 and feed with a nitrate/phosphate free feed, this

shouldn't
be a problem.

I hope it helps

Mark

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Hi Mark,
Thanks for your post....nitrites and ammonia are 0, I'm not too much worried
about the nitrates as this is not a planted tank....and they are still
relatively low. No CO2 unit.

The food that I use as their staple does contain Phosphates so I think
trying to find a phosphate test or remover is a good idea.

One thing I did see today when I did my bi-weekly algae fight is that if I
loosen the algae enough the Mbunas will eat it. So I'm thinking doing this
and then skipping a feed and letting nature take it's course.

Gill


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Old May 14th 05, 11:50 AM
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Sounds like a good plan!

Mark
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Old May 15th 05, 06:20 PM
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Sounds like a good plan!

Mark


Phosphates are 0.1 so nothing to write home about. So I think it's manual
clean up time and let the Mbunas do the rest

Gill


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Old May 15th 05, 06:23 PM
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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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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


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Old May 15th 05, 06:24 PM
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Sounds like a good plan!

Mark


Phosphates are 0.1 so nothing to write home about. So I think it's manual
clean up time and let the Mbunas do the rest

Gill


Woops - meant 0.25


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Old May 16th 05, 12:01 PM
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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 guess I should point out that I'm not really fighting algae, I just
had a greenish tinge to my tank. I've fought algae before and it's
awful. This is nothing like that.

Anyway, I tried swapping the halogen lights for energy saving bulbs,
which are basically little fluorescent tubes, but it didn't make any
difference. The slight green fur on the glass came back just as fast as
with the halogens.

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