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Blanket weed
Thanks for your great, practical advice - we have significantly reduced our use of the aquarium light and replaced the charcoal in the filter. Already algae growth has pretty much stopped, the tank is much cleaner & our fish are happy!
thankyou! x
Blanket weed?
Thanks for your responses, the problem resembles blanket weed that is found on ponds. In the water it is like cotton wool floating on the surface and around weed. When removed it is considerably reduced in volume and appears like green string? is there a good website where I...
Hi we have a small cold water aquarium with 8 cloud mountain minnows happily in residence and 3 thriving plants. Over the last few weeks however we have experienced increasing amounts of blanket weed. I have simply removed it on a weekly basis, but now find that it is so thick the fish are...
thanks - it was a blocked filter! - another question though...
thanks for your advice, the filter had indeed become blocked. After a good clean it is working again.:fish1:
I was wondering if you might help answer another question? we have brown powder-like substance appearing on many of the...
Hi we gave my daughter a small aquarium for Christmas which came complete with an aqua-flow 100 fliter. After about a week the filter started to make erratic noises, the flow of the water also became less even and the base of the filter cartridge started to foam. On closer investigation I...