cyanobacteria- lesson learned

See, I think that would hurt the fish, confuse them and set their circadian pattern off, possible shortening their lives.

 

I dont care if my "power lights" or all of my lights are on when I am home, actually I kind of like the dimmer tank.... so they can be off. I am reading no lights for a half hour oro so in the middle of the day

 

Well, I experimented for about 2 weeks now and there is marked improvement but both algaes are still there.

Planning this weekend to do a major break-down and cleaning. Again I will be removing all of my plants.

Flourish kills algae?!?! If so I think I will hit my plants in one bucket with that if it will work. My driftwood will get thoroughly cleaned as well. I tried it before but the beard algae did not go away as I did not have a brush that would get it off. I am getting one this weekend.

So I will be making a run to the pet store/hardware store to get the following list as I am about fed up with cleaning this crap off:
New mechanical filter media - I am changing my filters this weekend
Peat Moss - So my Proper PH 6.5 has high levels of Phosphates, I just learned that could be an aggravating factor in my algae growth and I plant to quit using it. The peat moss will go in my Magnum 350 and my Emperor 400.
Pond Prime - No reason to explain here, too many tanks and I used to use this on my ponds before and also my fish tanks. Great stuff!
New Lights - So I am getting rid of my 5000 lights and my Full Spectrum bulbs as I bet I am still to red/yellow in color. I will be getting 4 more 6700 or maybe 2 more 6700 with 2 10000 if I can find the 10K's cheap enough
Potato Brush - This will be to scrub the heck out of my driftwood
New Algae Sponge - that blue one for glass to scrape algae off.
Pantyhose - No, not for me to wear :roll: but to put the peat moss in. I will experiment with the peat moss to see if I can get my PH to set without the use of chemicals. My hope is it will cut down my cost of chemicals and I wont need to add blackwater extract or a PH buffer ever.
New timer - One of my 2 timers went out. It turns the tank on but not off.... not algae related but still a pain I want to fix :roll:

I will see in another few weeks once I do this how it goes. Maybe I might be able to move the tank too as I am going to drain it down to about 80% empty. I have been thinking about it in another location where it wont interfere with my couch and TV like it is now!