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Maybe you could add some shrimps? They do a great job cleaning up my tank.

Buy some Shrimps, mine do a great job of eating all kinds of unwanted stuff.

I’ve only just seen this thread. Happy New Year to you Darrel and thank you very much for all your helpful comments over the past year. Seasons greetings to everyone else as well!

I think it might do? :lol:

Get some shrimp, they should eat it.

I’m having an issue with brown algae in one of my tanks and noticed that it was growing on a cleaning magnet that I keep in the tank. Magnet easily removed, cleaned and replaced. It then occurred to me that perhaps I could deliberately place something in the tank to “collect” the diatoms to...

I have diatoms in a Nano that was set up several months back. It’s a 10L low tech with a 7W LED and small internal filter. Temperature is about 25c at the moment. Photo period is about 8-9 hours. Substrate is just Unipac aquarium sand and I’m using rainwater exclusively. I do about a 50% water...

I think the expectation is that after an hour the H2O2 would have done it’s job and broken done into oxygen and water by then.

Turning off the filter is presumably to prevent beneficial bacteria being affected? I had some green dust algae in my 10L Nano so I’ve been adding 1ml of 12% H2O2 with some fresh water once a week. The actual water volume in the tank is 7L. It was daily to start with but weekly seems to be...

I’ve seen a couple of different doses mentioned on YouTube for 3% H2O2. Anyone know anything different?

If you can drop the water level enough to expose the Algae you could also try Hydrogen Peroxide on it.

Until things stabilise you might like consider this: http://www.gpodio.com/h2o2.asp

Oh ok, thanks for that.

Thanks for posting the link Iain. It says on that site that lack of oxygen can be part of the problem so is it worth adding an airstone? I thought that would drive off CO2 making things worse?

At 700L an hour be careful your Puffers don't get flushed out of the tank! :shock:

Can you take a picture of the whole tank so we can see what you've got in there?

I reckon a surface skimmer can be a useful addition to any open top tank - the ADA ones look nice ... :D but if you really don't want one you can try mopping up the scum with kitchen roll till/if it subsides. Float a piece of roll on the surface for a few seconds then scoop it up carefully and...

This is the Ehiem http://www.zoocentras.lt/eheim-3535-ant ... -1474.html And the ADA http://www.adana.co.jp/en/products/na_filter/cleaner/ I think Fluval also make them so surface scum can be a problem. The old trickle filter systems used to be fed with surface water pouring over a weir...

I used to get that quite a lot and it's not uncommon. Ehiem make a surface skimmer to connect to your intake pipe. ADA also make one. Some folks think the oil content of some fish food contributes to the problem.