mrg02d
Aquarium Advice FINatic
Hello all,
I was surfing the net and found some sites claiming that egg crate leaks some chemicals that can be food for algae. Anyone heard of this? I do notice that my white eggcrate basket I made to hold chaeto seems to have 1000 times as much brown whispy algae on it than anything else in the tank!
A few people suggested its mearly the shape of the egg crate, but a few others said they had done tests and found small levels of phosphates being released as well as some other type of chemical that winds up being used by algae.
This spells YIKES to me if true!
Any thoughts, experiences?
Matt
I was surfing the net and found some sites claiming that egg crate leaks some chemicals that can be food for algae. Anyone heard of this? I do notice that my white eggcrate basket I made to hold chaeto seems to have 1000 times as much brown whispy algae on it than anything else in the tank!
A few people suggested its mearly the shape of the egg crate, but a few others said they had done tests and found small levels of phosphates being released as well as some other type of chemical that winds up being used by algae.
This spells YIKES to me if true!
Any thoughts, experiences?
Matt