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deschazkody Hobbyist Posts: 119 Kudos: 110 Votes: 77 Registered: 25-Jun-2005	hey i don,t really have the spare cash for a r/o filter rite now but these diatoms are driving me nuts any suggestions and yes its diatoms not brown algea]:\|
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:19
sham Ultimate Fish Guru Posts: 3369 Kudos: 2782 Votes: 98 Registered: 21-Apr-2004	Brown algae is diatoms As mentioned in the first 2 sentences on this site [link=http://www.indiana.edu/~diatom/diatom.html]http://www.indiana.edu/~diatom/diatom.html" style="COLOR: #C000C0[/link] diatoms are a type of algae. I think we'd need more info on the tank as to how to get rid of it. I always have diatoms show up when I set up a new tank without putting much light on it. The only tank I left low light and no plants had columns of it coming out of the sand and strings hanging off the caves.
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:19
Megil TelZeke Fish Addict Posts: 863 Kudos: 890 Votes: 393 Registered: 21-Jul-2003	I agree with sham, diatoms are for the most part high silicates and also low light. the easiest suggestion is to plant the tanka nd up the light, I can guarantee that the plants will outcompete the diatoms, and they will dissapear. I also doubt your diatoms were as bad as mine Remove as much as you can by hand, and well add plants and more light, should take care of the problem. HTH, Megil.[/font] Last edited by Megil Tel'Zeke at 31-Oct-2005 21:49 Last edited by Megil Tel'Zeke at 31-Oct-2005 21:50 Last edited by Megil Tel'Zeke at 31-Oct-2005 21:50
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:19
deschazkody Hobbyist Posts: 119 Kudos: 110 Votes: 77 Registered: 25-Jun-2005	the light will up in the next few days its a 55 gal perfecto with the two seperate hoods 18 " bulbs at 10.000 k wopping 30 watts built top adding another 110 watts waiting for my glass top to come in as far as plants is there anything cichlids wont thrash
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:19
sham Ultimate Fish Guru Posts: 3369 Kudos: 2782 Votes: 98 Registered: 21-Apr-2004	I managed to grow those aponogeton bulbs from walmart and a few crypts with my cichlids. You'd probably be better off looking for an algae eater that would survive with the cichlids and not putting quite that much light on there. Over 1-1.5wpg should keep the diatoms away and grow green algae instead. 2wpg or more and not doing a fairly heavily planted tank is going to give you tons of green algae. I decide I prefer planted tanks over agressive cichlid tanks so I only keep less destructive cichlids now.
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:19


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