How did you end up with excessive phosphorous? Overfeeding / overstocking? And pH value of 4? That's really low. Maybe glosso can't take it.

What's your setup like? Including fauna and temp.

Or did you introduce any new plants or rocks lately?

Causes of BBA,

Imbalance c02 output.. ( unstable also would make BBA come )( I find this to play the most crucial point for BBA - pump in as much as you can without killing your fauna)

Plainly bad water quality...
=overdose or food, ferts or anything. To overdose is killer.

poor maintenance regime

badly maintained canister filter.

Fix all this and the BBA will go away slowly and naturally. Tried , tested, and proven in my own tanks.
Hmm, those steps sounds like a general rule to all algae anyway. but....

Feel FREE TO CORRECT ME - was just suggesting an effective method of getting rid of them. (excel)

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P/s, this info can easily be found over GOOGLE.


Freestyler = still want to freestyle or finally get into track? LOL. Glosso melting means bad environment provided not enough light, c02 provided maybe?, hence melting causes imbalance in certain water qualities, hence leading to algae outbreak.

Cheers.
Drew

This post has been edited by chuppy2: Jun 9 2010, 12:58 AM

Btw, if your tank has planaria infection and u ahve shrimps in it.

NA is selling some powder that will kill planaria and wont harm your shrimps.

Taiwan product, origin of rthe panda shrimp hahaha

good info.. i got planaria infection also

well, dont know that stupid Sera PH tester can use one or not..
anyway i did not feed anything to the fish at all.. i only have 2 oto and 5 cherry + 1 tiger + 2 Yamato..
but the cherry keep on dying one by one.. no idea why every time i buy 10 cherry or shrimp they sure die one by one after one week no more dead shrimp... means all of them are survivor.. but introduce new shrimp again sure die one by one again =.= i did not add any flora or wood or rock at all...

How do you change water by the way?

Drew

siphon out the water 20% to 30% from my tank
then siphon in the new water , inside the water added in 1 cap of RM1 anti- chlorine...

This post has been edited by freestyler87: Jun 9 2010, 10:40 AM

Hi William, do you know what is the name of the powder that you mention?

the powder name is kinda obvious

NO-PLANARIA

unstable co2 output - solution is SOLENOIDDDDDDDDDDDD !!!!

fongzai if i buy solenoid endup still have BBA i KILL YOU !! haha

Means you're not getting rid of chloramine... bad for your beneficial bacteria and fauna if in large volume.
http://theaquariumwiki.com/Chloramine

HEHE, i waiting u do the experiment ! cost is rm2XX !

deewww lo... today i tear down my shrimp tank... only to find out i got very few remaining rcs inside... others dunno die where adi...

top up a new layer of ADA powder soil... did water change 1 hr after topping up the soil... surviving rcs seems fine... added air pump for aeration...

tml go buy some small plants put inside... sick of java moss adi... make da thing tangle up...

flame moss nt bad mah!

Huh? i thought our malaysia still haven using that chloramine?
cause the chloramine expensive...

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Added on June 10, 2010, 9:21 ami tried, still the same lolz

This post has been edited by freestyler87: Jun 10 2010, 09:21 AM

Argh ... the planaria is infesting my tank badly, i wonder if ghost shrimp will hunt and eat them one by one?

Sarawak have chloramine apparently.
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?sec=s...sarawak/6047213

So I'll assume Klang Valley would have it. Better be safe than sorry.

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Added on June 10, 2010, 9:40 amIf you have other shrimps in the tank, I won't advice it. Ghost shrimps are too aggressive to be kept with smaller shrimps.

This post has been edited by SweetPuff: Jun 10 2010, 09:40 AM

ive kept ghost shrimps(big females) wif smaller rcs b4 and there has been no problem at all. The only problem is thatthey will sometimes snack on my guppy fry but its very rare for this to happen.

Hehe. Thanksfor the info, but will they eat the planaria?