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Old August 20th 05, 10:20 PM
Pedro
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I am trying to make a solution to clean some new plants I have bought/will
buy.
Som einstructions on the web says to have 1 part bleach and 19 parts water.
What does this mean?


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Old August 20th 05, 10:49 PM
Andrzej Konarski
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I am trying to make a solution to clean some new plants I have bought/will
buy.
Som einstructions on the web says to have 1 part bleach and 19 parts
water.
What does this mean?


Dont do it . Yuo can crash your new plant ?
what for do you want to clean plants ?


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Old August 20th 05, 11:04 PM
Pedro
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It seems to have brown/black algae
Need to clean them.




"Andrzej Konarski" wrote in message
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I am trying to make a solution to clean some new plants I have
bought/will buy.
Som einstructions on the web says to have 1 part bleach and 19 parts
water.
What does this mean?


Dont do it . Yuo can crash your new plant ?
what for do you want to clean plants ?




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Old August 20th 05, 11:22 PM
Andrzej Konarski
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It seems to have brown/black algae
Need to clean them.

You dont need to clean them.
This kind of alge cannot infected your tank.
New leafs will be without this **** and then you will be cut old leafs.
Do not use this chemical medium ( i forget the true name of this white
chemic) because you kill new plant or weak them.


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Old August 21st 05, 08:45 AM
Elaine T
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Pedro wrote:
It seems to have brown/black algae
Need to clean them.




"Andrzej Konarski" wrote in message
...

I am trying to make a solution to clean some new plants I have
bought/will buy.
Som einstructions on the web says to have 1 part bleach and 19 parts
water.
What does this mean?


Dont do it . Yuo can crash your new plant ?
what for do you want to clean plants ?





If it's hairy, black algae (often called black brush algae), C.
siamensis (Siamese Algae Eeaters) will eat it. It is virtually
impossible to remove from plants by hand. Cut off the worst looking
leaves, introduce the fish, and wait 4-6 weeks for most of the algae to
disappear. First, you'll see that new growth is algae free, and then
you'll see the older algae eaten to sort of a blackish residue - you may
want to remove those leaves once the plants have plenty of algae free
leaves.

http://www.thekrib.com/Fish/Algae-Eaters/

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Old August 21st 05, 09:09 AM
Andrzej Konarski
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If it's hairy, black algae (often called black brush algae), C.
siamensis (Siamese Algae Eeaters) will eat it. It is virtually impossible
to remove from plants by hand. Cut off the worst looking leaves,
introduce the fish, and wait 4-6 weeks for most of the algae to disappear.
First, you'll see that new growth is algae free, and then you'll see the
older algae eaten to sort of a blackish residue - you may want to remove
those leaves once the plants have plenty of algae free leaves.

http://www.thekrib.com/Fish/Algae-Eaters/


It`s a good dissolution too


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Old August 21st 05, 03:12 PM
Pedro
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I have two siamese algae eaters but they are not doing a very good job on
these.
I have read an article that says that with a 2 minute bath in this solution
the algae on the leaves will drop.
Almost all the plant leaves have it.


"Elaine T" wrote in message
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Pedro wrote:
It seems to have brown/black algae
Need to clean them.




"Andrzej Konarski" wrote in message
...

I am trying to make a solution to clean some new plants I have
bought/will buy.
Som einstructions on the web says to have 1 part bleach and 19 parts
water.
What does this mean?

Dont do it . Yuo can crash your new plant ?
what for do you want to clean plants ?





If it's hairy, black algae (often called black brush algae), C. siamensis
(Siamese Algae Eeaters) will eat it. It is virtually impossible to remove
from plants by hand. Cut off the worst looking leaves, introduce the
fish, and wait 4-6 weeks for most of the algae to disappear. First,
you'll see that new growth is algae free, and then you'll see the older
algae eaten to sort of a blackish residue - you may want to remove those
leaves once the plants have plenty of algae free leaves.

http://www.thekrib.com/Fish/Algae-Eaters/

--
Elaine T __
http://eethomp.com/fish.html '__
rec.aquaria.* FAQ http://faq.thekrib.com



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Old August 21st 05, 08:41 PM
Andrzej Konarski
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I have two siamese algae eaters but they are not doing a very good job on
these.
I have read an article that says that with a 2 minute bath in this
solution the algae on the leaves will drop.
Almost all the plant leaves have it.


I have read this too but i have read that the substance can crash the plant.


 




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