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[Limes]

You know what really grinds my gears. This %$&@
Not a very good photo, pretty sure it's black beard algae... On my plant... Ripped it out of the tank to try get a better photo, doesn't work so well...
Yet to find a way to get rid of this stuff...
Have Siamese flying foxes that apparently eat it, they don't seem to care for it at all...
Looks so ugly and is infesting my tank faster then I can scrub and rip out plants.


Another note, which section of the forum would this go, nutrition/disease? 0.o

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[Fox]

Hard stuff to get rid of, And I have found no species that will eat it in its entirety.

 

 

And yep, I moved it to Fish Health, Nutrition, Diseases & Pests for you
I was going to put it in the planted section, but bearded algae is a pest

[Westie]

Work out why you're getting BBA and then you will be able to better control it
I purchased a large plant recently which had quite a bit of BBA. Gone in 2 weeks

[Michael the fish fanatic]

I hate BBA

[Mr_docfish]

Check your phosphates - get it down and the BBA will stop growing - what you have wont disappear, you will need to kill it off with gluteraldehyde or peroxide, but with phosphates down, the BBA wont come back as thick.

[bigjohnnofish]

i get it sometimes too... must come in the tap water i reckon... sometimes one tank gets it bad and then month later its all gone and another tank is under attack from it... one observation tho is guppies do snack on it and help keep it down