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Help needed How do you grow Algae?
Re: Help needed How do you grow Algae?
by Jasmine » Sat Jun 06, 2009 10:36 pm
Hmmn, somehow this has slipped through the cracks, and whilst I assume the asker has found the answer elsewhere, its still a question that needs answering here.
I am assuming you need to grow algae for a vegetarian fish like a bristle nosed catfish or a pleco. Whilst the pleco will almost certainly need more vegetable matter than you can grow in a tank, the bristle nosed catfish likely will be fine with just Algae growing in a tank.
The simplest way to grow Algae is to get a piece of boiled/sinking driftwood and place it in the tank. Boiling it makes it sink, the rough surface of the driftwood is an ideal place for algae to grow and it will grow on the wood much more than it will grow on the tank walls.
If you are getting much algae growing on the tank walls.... likely you have too many nutrients in your tank. This could be the result of overfeeding fish and resulting rotting food polluting the water, or insufficient water changes to remove the excess ammonia from fish waste.
I have 4 tanks, one with cichlids, one with goldfish and my "creek tank" which is full of anything I can find in the creek(except for leaches as they tend to kill everything) and a plant growing tank. In all of the fish tanks, I keep a lot of plants to use up excess nutrients in the water, but I am careful not to let any dead or dying plant material rot in the water as this is as bad as having excess nutrients. The cichlids also eat the plants like crazy, thus my plant grow tank so i can keep replacing them.
I am assuming you need to grow algae for a vegetarian fish like a bristle nosed catfish or a pleco. Whilst the pleco will almost certainly need more vegetable matter than you can grow in a tank, the bristle nosed catfish likely will be fine with just Algae growing in a tank.
The simplest way to grow Algae is to get a piece of boiled/sinking driftwood and place it in the tank. Boiling it makes it sink, the rough surface of the driftwood is an ideal place for algae to grow and it will grow on the wood much more than it will grow on the tank walls.
If you are getting much algae growing on the tank walls.... likely you have too many nutrients in your tank. This could be the result of overfeeding fish and resulting rotting food polluting the water, or insufficient water changes to remove the excess ammonia from fish waste.
I have 4 tanks, one with cichlids, one with goldfish and my "creek tank" which is full of anything I can find in the creek(except for leaches as they tend to kill everything) and a plant growing tank. In all of the fish tanks, I keep a lot of plants to use up excess nutrients in the water, but I am careful not to let any dead or dying plant material rot in the water as this is as bad as having excess nutrients. The cichlids also eat the plants like crazy, thus my plant grow tank so i can keep replacing them.
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