Flourish Excel Vs Bba

[FishBeast]

I am dosing the reccomended dose of excel against the BBA in my tank and I am a week in now and I can't see any visable signs of it dying. I am wondering how long it will take before I can see it dying.

Cheers!

 

[snowflake311]

Change is co2 is the cause once you have your co2 under control it should go away. Also good water flow all over the tank will help no dead spots. I feel like I have every kind if algea once. I Added better flow used only excle same amount every time everyday (I don't do co2). I also removed all infected leaves and rocks whatever has it on. I let the rock dry out.

Once I got it all under control my excle dose consistant my water flow all over. I have not had any come back.

 

[flippajh]

I've been adding Excel Flourish for one week now, and only have a small amount of BBA left on one plant now, the vallis has completely cleared up, luckily the plants were the only place it was. The difference is really, really noticeable.

 

[Neesmo]

took me about a week with a medium case of BBA. i added a hydor power head and i think thats the best thing i did. I was overdosing my excel and it worked well with a casualty though, so i dont recomend doing that.

Kyle

 

[FishBeast]

Hi guys, it has been well over 1 week now and there are only a couple of bba patches showing signs on dying. I have increased the dosage to double the standard rate and am not brave enough to go any higher. I have cut the light in my tank down from 312w to 156w and the light cycle from 8 to 6 hrs.

Do you guys have any more recommendations?

 

[aaronnorth]

try spot dosing the affected areas, tun off the filter & powerheads for a few minutes so it stays around the area for a bit longer.

 

[FishBeast]

OK, I will give that a shot aaron. I have changed my light cycle to 2 hrs on, 2 hrs off,m 2 hrs on aswell.

 

[Glenn UK]

I was told once that BBA is quite often caused by large water changes, i cant remember much other than the CO2 levels in large water changes make BBA thrive. Maybe someone could comment?

 

[aaronnorth]

I was told once that BBA is quite often caused by large water changes, i cant remember much other than the CO2 levels in large water changes make BBA thrive. Maybe someone could comment?

Hi, this is more to do with low tech tanks/ non CO2 methods where RUBISCO production is affected.
see the last paragraph under "CO2/carbon"

thanks.

EDIT: beter add the link!

http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?/topic/298133-back-to-basics/

 

[Bobtastic]

With the large water changes causing aglae it is probably because it changes the Co2 levels. I have heard that fluctuations in Co2 levels can cause algae to grow. So if you are changing out water for Co2 rich water (ie from the tap) it will increase the Co2 level, but then the Co2 level will gradually fall back down as the gas exchanges from the surface.

I'm lead to believe the way to stop this is to leave the water you are going to change standing in a water butt for 24hrs prior to change.

 

[RadaR]

With the large water changes causing aglae it is probably because it changes the Co2 levels. I have heard that fluctuations in Co2 levels can cause algae to grow. So if you are changing out water for Co2 rich water (ie from the tap) it will increase the Co2 level, but then the Co2 level will gradually fall back down as the gas exchanges from the surface.

I'm lead to believe the way to stop this is to leave the water you are going to change standing in a water butt for 24hrs prior to change.

This is indeed for planted tanks that aren't dosed with liquid carbon or injected with gaseous CO2.