Algae? Is It A Health Risk?

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I've started my first fishless cycle from my only other tank, at the time I had a bit of an algae problem the green filmy kind, due to the fact that I was using plastic plants as the goldfish had all but eaten the green ones. The media I used was what was left of a real crappy little plant with algae on it,(no idea what kind) with pretty good roots and part of the wool it was rapped in, and some of the gravel from that tank. The cycle has started and I have water sprite floating in both tanks now, so no algae in the new one, and very little remaining in the first tank... the new filter is meant for my Betta tank, and the Betta has a recent history of illness, someone at LFS :crazy: told me that the type of algae I've had is bacterial, bacterial but harmless to the fish and my Goldfish have never been sick, so my question is, do I need to worry about exposing the Betta to illness from this algae or anything else in new filter I've started?
 
Nope, BGA, the bacterial algea you have is 100% harmless, assuming it is like either a brown or green slime coating over everything :good:

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