Hi everyone! I have a little 3 gal fish tank with a betta and 2 assassin snails in it. It had a takeover of Cyanobacteria a few weeks ago, so last week I took everything out, cleaned it under hot water, re-did the substrate (sand and bio-stratum), cleaned and put new filter media in, and refilled it with water from another tank. Unfortunately the Cyano is coming back so I’m looking for a way to remove the cyano without having to use Algaefix and move the assassins to a different tank. Any advice is appreciated!
Posted by AlmostPsychologist
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I ordered floating plants to hopefully out compete the algae in my tanks. I’m using Seachem excel in one that has no fish yet but the other I have rabbit snails and won’t risk hurting them.
I usually order floating plants from Etsy. I got a package with red root floaters, dwarf water lettuce, salvinia cucullata, and java moss. I hate duckweed and like Frogbit but the roots get a little annoying.
I would not have taken everything out and rinsed it in hot water, that could have crashed your tank. What are your parameters? I would be concerned about excess nutrients from the betta in a too small tank along with nutrient rich substrate with basically no plants to absorb that causing algae issues. You don’t need plant substrate with no plants that root in it btw. I also can’t tell if there’s much water movement- still water will allow it to grow so you may want to get a slightly stronger filter. How long do you leave the light on? Don’t leave it on for more than 8 hours a day.
Be very cautious about using/just avoid algaecide because it can kill snails and fish in too high a concentration.
Just here saying thats’s the clearest tank I’ve ever seen. If I didn’t see the fish..I thought it was a terrarium.