#algaegeddon

[addfish]

Last year I could not access my 90l tank to maintain it properly due to building work and as a result it suffered what I like to call Algaegeddon! My tank was plagued with hair algae, green spot algae and black beard algae, also resulting in a loss of a lot of shrimps, fish and snails.

So this year I have had to start over! I removed most of the badly affected leaves, but the algae still kept coming! I bought a treatment only to find out that it was harmful to shrimp and snails, luckily I realised before I used it! Then i bought another which says it was safe for fish/shrimps/snails, but only worked on one type of algae, (green water) which was no good! I finally found Colombo Algisin which treats all kinds of algae and is safe for fish, snails and shrimp! It's a long process to treat it, but it is working well!

I also used Algisin in the 30l Aquacube. I packed the tank away last year and recently restarted it, and although I bought new plants and everything was clean it developed algae from new tank syndrome. The algae is gone now after 2 doses of the treatment, so it's time to buy some more plants!

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[bootywraith-blog]

So our water is safe to bathe in for healthy adults, but we won't have drinkable tap water until at least 9 AM tomorrow; we've got tons of bottled water though, because we got help from the state, etc, but it's still frustrating.

Honestly it's ridiculous we've let the health of the lake--our supply of drinking water--get this bad (the culprit is thought to be phosphorus from farm runoff, in addition to warmer than normal lake water).

[addfish]

I have had a run of bad luck after trying to restart my tank post Algaegeddon. I bought some Cardinal tetras from Pets At Home, later that evening once I had released them into my tank I realised they had whitespot! :( I ordered a whitespot treatment that was safe for snails and shrimp (a lot of them are deadly to shrimp and inverts!) luckily the disease didn't spread to any if my other fish, but I sadly lost the tetra. Pets At Home gave me a refund luckily as they had just realised the tank was infected before I called them to complain. Thankfully the whitespot is completely gone and my other fish are fine!

In plant news, I ordered two tiger lotus bulbs off ebay, but I was sent some kind of bulb that looked like a spring onion?! I found out that this had happened to other people as well, so I get the feeling it was intentional scam by the seller. The next lotus bulb I bought from a different seller never developed shoots and started to rot inside, so it must have been a dud. Finally, I ordered 4 cryptocoryne plants which got lost in the post by Royal Mail! :( Thankfully I have got refunds for everything, but this run of bad luck has wasted weeks of tank progress!

Rotten tiger lotus bulb

Scam 'tiger lotus' bulbs!!

[bootywraith-blog]

Don't use, drink, cook with, or even boil any of the water in Toledo, Ohio. Restaurants should close up for the day.

So if you're like me and live in the greater Toledo area, don't drink your tap water. Toxins produced by blue-green algae (which has been running rampant in lake Erie lately), microcystins, were found overnight in the water supply. Pets should not be drinking the water either.

It is safe to bathe in the water, but not to ingest it (drink, brush your teeth, etc). I took a bathe not minutes ago and am fine.

A lot of local stores are out of bottled water; the Oregon (city, not state) fire department is giving out free water, and the water supply there is safe. Otherwise you'll be travelling a bit to get drinking water. 

Boiling does not work; it actually increases the concentration of toxin in the water and so can't make your water safe. I don't know if filters work or not. 

If you drank the water, don't rush off to the hospital. If it's been a while and you're not having symptoms, you're probably fine. Symptoms include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, etc, but exposure to large amounts can be damaging to the liver. If you or your pets are sick and have taken in tap water since 2 am or so, it's probably a good idea to seek medical/vet attention.

Most businesses are shut down for the day. There's actually police keeping order at grocery stores :/ Basically we're being told to treat this as a level 3 snow emergency (don't go out unless it's an emergency situation). The governor has declared a state of emergency for Lucas and Wood county. We don't have an ETA on safe water yet.