Instruction
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Blue-green algae in aquarium, growing under intense lighting. So combat need to start with reducing the photoperiod to 8 hours for complete replacement of natural light with artificial. Kelp, on the contrary, I love low lighting, and fight with them to strengthen the intensity of the lamps.
2
It is important to ensure that fish ate all the food, as the rotting remains of meals only contribute to the unwanted growth of lower plants.
3
You can put in the aquarium the competitors of algae – higher plants and growing them to create a good environment for the growth and population of fish to decrease. At the same time to replace every day the tenth part of water and clean soil.
4
There are fish that feed on algae, for example, Siamese or Chinese vodorosley, otocinclus, flying foxes, catfish-plecostomus. Even the snail, such as mollies and marinosci actively devour filamentous fouling.
5
Will also destroy algae Daphnia, but before their start in the aquarium, all the fish you want to temporarily remove.
6
Reduce the amount of algae in the aquarium snails-coil and ampulyarii. So they can fully restrain the growth of algae, you need to have a huge number of them, and it's not aesthetically pleasing for appearance.
7
Very effective is the chemical treatment of the aquarium. There are many drugs whose action is directed at the destruction of algae, but after a while the algae will again begin to capture the aquarium, appeared from survivors of the dispute. In addition, some plants cannot withstand chemical poisoning and die.
8
Time consuming but safe method of dealing with some algae is manual removal: scraping off from the walls with a scraper or rolling long strings on a stick.
