Do Anti-algae Products Work?

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Hi, I was wondering if these algae treatment products work?. Do they have have any negative affects on stock in the aquarium?.

I ask because since moving house a few weeks ago, I have started to get a bad case of "green water", it really doesn't look very appealing. I have been doing water changes every 2-3 days of around 40-50% but it seems to develop quicker than I can treat it.

The aquarium was established for over three months before moving house, and was crystal clear. It currently is no where near any windows, and I have been cutting the light off for the best part of the day, and only a few hours of an evening.

The current water parameters are as follows;

AM: 0.0ppm
nI: 0.0ppm
nA: 5ppm
pH: 7.2

My next resort was to try a product like this. Has anybody had any success with products like that before?.

Thanks in advance for any advice you may be able to give.

Michael.


Edit: Oppps, didn't realise I posted in the newb forum, what a newb! Feel free to move to the appropriate forum mods.
 
Did you move far enough that you have a new water supply? If so, it would be worth checking out what the phosphate level is in the new water. It could cause an algal bloom like that.

Reducing the amount of time the lights are on will help, too.

I haven't tried any algae removing products but from what I hear, things tend to go back to being the way they were before unless the problem is solved, since it is really only treating a symptom (algal bloom) of the real issue (excess nutrients).
 
Hi Michael,
Rather cover the problem up I would try to solve it - anti-algae products don't solve it.

As stated above, take you phosphate reading and we can go from there - it does sound like it may be high looking at the results above as they seem to be pretty normal.

There a few things you can do to lower this.
 
Anita... BGA isn't really an algae. In fact, BGA is cyanobacteria... hence, not really a plant. Most other algae are basic forms of plants.

I'm currently battling a spot algae infestation (and some dust algae, but dust isn't that bad... just requires scraping). I was thinking of products too, but have heard they don't really do much in the long term, so will be following this thread closely...
 

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