JRagg
Aquarium Advice FINatic
I'm cycling my tank now and I have had two forms of "algae" show up. Brown algae (doesn't look like diatoms) forming on the glass, sand, and tops of plant leaves. I seem to have gotten this slowed down or killed. I did some fert dosing and added CO2 and it lookslike that is under control.
Cyano... this crap is taking over. It started when my tank was bottomed out on Nitrates (I have since dosed up to 20ppm) and it is still growing quickly. It is going to kill my watersprite. I have to clean the watersprite daily, but this is just a temporary fix. I did a search and found a site saying that using erythromycin (an antibiotic) will kill the cyano. Apparently Maracyn has this antibiotic as a main ingredient. The same article said that Maracyn had some effect on Nitrosomonas and Nitrobacter, though the Maracyn bottle says this is not the case.
Can anyone confirm that Maracyn is good for killing cyano? Any confirmation on whether or not it affects Nitrosomonas or Nitrobacter?
Here is the article I read:
http://www.thekrib.com/Plants/Algae/cyanobacteria.html
TIA
Cyano... this crap is taking over. It started when my tank was bottomed out on Nitrates (I have since dosed up to 20ppm) and it is still growing quickly. It is going to kill my watersprite. I have to clean the watersprite daily, but this is just a temporary fix. I did a search and found a site saying that using erythromycin (an antibiotic) will kill the cyano. Apparently Maracyn has this antibiotic as a main ingredient. The same article said that Maracyn had some effect on Nitrosomonas and Nitrobacter, though the Maracyn bottle says this is not the case.
Can anyone confirm that Maracyn is good for killing cyano? Any confirmation on whether or not it affects Nitrosomonas or Nitrobacter?
Here is the article I read:
http://www.thekrib.com/Plants/Algae/cyanobacteria.html
TIA