Kelly, what you do not get out will re-establish in your tank.You do not want to move it but rather remove it ASAP.
Regards,
red-eye
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From: AquaticLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:AquaticLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Kelly Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 2:57 AM To: AquaticLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [AquaticLife] Another problem/question
When you scrape the algae off the glass do […]
When you scrape the algae off the glass do you let it float around and settle or scoop it all up with a net? Kelly xxxxxx From: AquaticLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:AquaticLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of onelvlady Sent: 23 April 2009 02:01 To: AquaticLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [AquaticLife] Another problem/question
I have noticed a new […]
You should be cleaning the gravel at least once a week, I clean more than that myself, but I want to make sure the extra food is getting cleaned out of the gravel. You might be having issues because you’re not vacuuming the gravel often enough, try cleaning more often, but don’t […]
I have noticed a new problem and need advice. When I do my 25% water change, I usually vacuum the gravel. I use the battery operated gravel cleaner but I don’t feel that is the problem. What I have noticed is that when I move the substrate, either […]
So basically my answer is that you might want to see if you can find a lfs with different light setups so you can see the lighting in person before you buy. After reading your first post it looks like you don’t keep live plants so you don’t need high lighting unless you want plants […]
The amount of lighting depends on your plants not the fish. So if you don’t keep live plants then you don’t need very bright light as the fish don’t really care lol.
Amber
Courtland Jacob wrote:
>still really haven’t gotten my question answered about the wattage, as for white substrate, well the white naturally browns, but […]
I have freshwater, and I use actinic bulbs (blue bulbs) as well as daylight bulbs (I think they are 6700kelvin), then at night the blue LED lights come on. I do notice that the tank I have with actinic bulbs on it, grows green algae VERY well, my big tank which has […]
I have marine fish not sure if the lighting rules are the same we have a suspended lightbox thingy with a blue bulb and sunlight bulb I’m new to this so don’t ask for the proper names!! We give our fish a couple of hours of blue bulb before switching […]
I have a 55 gallon tank with african cichlids, currently i have two eclipse natural daylight F15T8 18″ flourescent bulbs that came with it. I want to bring out the color in my fish the best i can, i use white dolomite substrate, red lava rock for hiding and a few plastic plants. the fish […]
> From: Amber Berglund > > As far as I know there’s not really any fish that like to eat hair > algae, some will eat a little, but not enough to get rid of it. You > basically have to clean it out each week to try to keep it contained >> Courtland Jacob […]