Reply To: String algae

i have thread algea in my breeding tank and love it at the moment however its not pretty.

if its for your breeding tank (if your trying to breed them that is) i wouldnt put any ‘algea eating’ fish in there as im sure they will eat the eggs aswell when sifting though the plants etc

but thats not answerd your question

in my planted tank i had a big algea bloom of thread/string (mainly by the filter outlet) a few days ago i added moss balls/ Marimo balls and this morning i noticed that all my thread algea has started to die off.

not sure if it was the moss balls or not but i know moss balls are actually a type of algea so it might of starved the thread/string algea of netriants. might be worth having a little loook into it

chris
sorry for the story