Thread or Spirogyra algae

[Ben Belton]

Sounds like you would only need a few ml's.

[jweis]

Sorry, I have kinda neglected this until now. I think I was mentally suppressing the memory of having to deal with this stuff. It's a complete nightmare.

I hate to bring this up, but here goes.... When I got back going with my aquarium, it was like the book of Exodus. I had every plague known to aquariums. Algae, planaria, wolfia. One of my problems was Spirogyra. There is a really long thread on it on planted tank. I can't find it now. It recommended various doses of Excel, and/or blackouts, and/or peroxide, and/or combinations of everything.. water changes... algae eating fish.. algae eating shrimp... voodoo. I tried them all and nothing work. I did this over months. I killed so many cherry shrimp, snails, and expensive fish it was obscene. I finally decided I couldn't be anymore cruel and inhumane to my tanks inhabitants than I already had, so I decided to go outside the box and use the nuke option. Mardel Coppersafe.

My tank is a 75 and the recommended dose for that is about 95ml. I changed the water (which killed more stressed out shrimp) and put in 60ml. No fish died, no plants died, no shrimp died, and the algae was gone in 2-3 days. A month or so later, I got Syirogyra again. This time I decided to try a lower dose. I put in 30ml of Coppersafe. No fish died, no plants died, no shrimp died, and the algae was gone in 2-3 days. I haven't had any since.

FWIW

Ben

Thanks for the tip. If it appears like it is comming back, I will definitely try this.

[sfarkhan]

Sorry, I have kinda neglected this until now. I think I was mentally suppressing the memory of having to deal with this stuff. It's a complete nightmare.

I hate to bring this up, but here goes.... When I got back going with my aquarium, it was like the book of Exodus. I had every plague known to aquariums. Algae, planaria, wolfia. One of my problems was Spirogyra. There is a really long thread on it on planted tank. I can't find it now. It recommended various doses of Excel, and/or blackouts, and/or peroxide, and/or combinations of everything.. water changes... algae eating fish.. algae eating shrimp... voodoo. I tried them all and nothing work. I did this over months. I killed so many cherry shrimp, snails, and expensive fish it was obscene. I finally decided I couldn't be anymore cruel and inhumane to my tanks inhabitants than I already had, so I decided to go outside the box and use the nuke option. Mardel Coppersafe.

My tank is a 75 and the recommended dose for that is about 95ml. I changed the water (which killed more stressed out shrimp) and put in 60ml. No fish died, no plants died, no shrimp died, and the algae was gone in 2-3 days. A month or so later, I got Syirogyra again. This time I decided to try a lower dose. I put in 30ml of Coppersafe. No fish died, no plants died, no shrimp died, and the algae was gone in 2-3 days. I haven't had any since.

FWIW

Ben

Thanks for the info!

Can you, or someone please elaborate on how copper kills algae?