Comments on: Ways to prevent algae growth in your pet fish tank. http://www.markspetfish.com/algae-problems/ Pet Fish Supplies. Pet Fish Supplies has information on the Pet Fish Aquarium. All Pet Fish Supplies in one place for your Pet Fish Aquarium. Fri, 23 Apr 2010 06:42:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Mark http://www.markspetfish.com/algae-problems/comment-page-1/#comment-744 Mark Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:00:42 +0000 http://markspetfish.com/?p=1#comment-744 Thanks for the comment! I would have to agree with you and say that it's the excess food falling into the gravel that is possibly causing your problem. I only say this since this is the only thing that you have really changed other then the light. You mentioned that you have goldfish and with that I would remove any heater that you may have going. They are not tropical fish and so you may just get lucky enough with only having to remove the heater. I recommend that you cut back on the food a little for the next week or two and see if the algae problem persists. By waiting you will be able to see if the gravel and the food are really the problem and that way you will be able to find out if weather or not you should switch back to the other gravel or a small pebble size. P.s The beneficial bacteria that was growing amongst the old gravel have greatly been depleted since you added new gravel, so even if the food is not the issue I would be willing to bet that the algae is from this fact as well. I would say that you should wait about 2-3 weeks for the tank to reach a stable state again and then if the issue persists that we should start looking at other possible causes. Thanks again for the comment and keep them coming! :) -Mark Thanks for the comment!

I would have to agree with you and say that it’s the excess food falling into the gravel that is possibly causing your problem. I only say this since this is the only thing that you have really changed other then the light.

You mentioned that you have goldfish and with that I would remove any heater that you may have going. They are not tropical fish and so you may just get lucky enough with only having to remove the heater.

I recommend that you cut back on the food a little for the next week or two and see if the algae problem persists. By waiting you will be able to see if the gravel and the food are really the problem and that way you will be able to find out if weather or not you should switch back to the other gravel or a small pebble size.

P.s The beneficial bacteria that was growing amongst the old gravel have greatly been depleted since you added new gravel, so even if the food is not the issue I would be willing to bet that the algae is from this fact as well. I would say that you should wait about 2-3 weeks for the tank to reach a stable state again and then if the issue persists that we should start looking at other possible causes.

Thanks again for the comment and keep them coming! :)

-Mark

]]> By: rbm1230@aol.com http://www.markspetfish.com/algae-problems/comment-page-1/#comment-741 rbm1230@aol.com Fri, 02 Jan 2009 06:45:18 +0000 http://markspetfish.com/?p=1#comment-741 I have small goldfish and have recently had massive aglae problems. I changed the light which was old and that fixed the problem somewhat but I still get tons of algae on the gravel whenever I move it around it goes flying everywhere. I recently changed from small gravel to large gravel and can this be the cause of all the algae? Is it that the small fish cannot move the gravel adequately with their mouths to get the food that falls between it and the excess food is rotting and contributing to the increased algae growth? I keep the light on about 9 hours a day and the tank is not in direct sunlight and I do have a very small pleco (the tank is only 10 gallons). I have small goldfish and have recently had massive aglae problems. I changed the light which was old and that fixed the problem somewhat but I still get tons of algae on the gravel whenever I move it around it goes flying everywhere. I recently changed from small gravel to large gravel and can this be the cause of all the algae? Is it that the small fish cannot move the gravel adequately with their mouths to get the food that falls between it and the excess food is rotting and contributing to the increased algae growth? I keep the light on about 9 hours a day and the tank is not in direct sunlight and I do have a very small pleco (the tank is only 10 gallons).

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