Path: utzoo!hoptoad!amdahl!ames!hc!lll-winken!gryphon!richard
From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: Re: HELP...thread algae!
Summary: Uhh, Brian ?  Don't you have an algae Lasagna recipe ?
Message-ID: <2197@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 20 Jan 88 03:35:55 GMT
References: <6890002@hpindda.HP.COM>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <6890002@hpindda.HP.COM> schoen@hpindda.HP.COM (Dave Schoen) writes:
>
>Howdy,
>   I have had tropical fish for a *long* time but recently I have encountered
>a new problem.  How the heck do you get rid of algae that grows as very long
>threads?  Has anyone been successful in controling this kind of algae (*NOT*
>to be confused with the fuzzy stuff).
>  Thanks for any help...

Algae needs light and nutrients to grow.  You are supplying too much
of one or the other.



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