Beauty of an aquarium can be spoiled by rough growth of seaweed. Water gains green color, sometimes grows turbid, and walls of an aquarium, a plant and stones acquire an unattractive raid or dirty threads. Absolutely it is impossible to remove seaweed in an aquarium, but if in time to take the appropriate measures, their growth can be limited.
Instruction
1. Blue-green seaweed in aquarium grow under the strengthened lighting. Therefore fight against them needs to be begun with reduction of light day till 8 o'clock, full replacement of natural lighting by artificial. Brown seaweed, on the contrary, love low lighting, and it is necessary to fight against them strengthening of intensity of lamps.
2. It is important to watch that fishes ate all forage as the decaying remains only promote food and undesirable growth of the lowest plants.
3. It is possible to put in an aquarium of competitors of seaweed – the higher fast-growing plants and to create them good conditions for growth, and for a while to reduce a livestock of fishes. At the same time to replace every day the tenth part of water and to clean soil.
4. There are fishes who are fed with seaweed, for example, Siamese or Chinese vodorosleed, ototsinklyus, the flying chanterelles, som-plekostomusy. Even zhivorodka, such as mollineziya and metsenosets, actively eat around threadlike fouling.
5. Also will destroy seaweed of a water flea, but before to start them in an aquarium, all fishes need to be removed temporarily.
6. Reduce quantity of seaweed in an aquarium of a snail coil and an ampulyariya. That they could constrain completely growth of seaweed, it is necessary to have their huge number, and it is not esthetic for appearance.
7. Chemical treatment of an aquarium is very effective. There are many medicines which effect is directed to destruction of seaweed, but after a while seaweed will start over again taking an aquarium, having appeared from survived a dispute. Besides, some plants do not maintain chemical poisoning and perish.
8. A labor-consuming, but safe method of fight against some seaweed is their manual removal: scraping from walls a scraper or winding of long threads on a stick.