Bubble alage

[saturn13]

Hey everyone,

Looking for best suggestions to get rid of bubble alage?

Thanks,
Dan

 

[Drysea]

Total removal? Maybe somebody else has an easy solution. The hard way works. About 15 years ago I had a terrible infestation. I went through every rock took it to the sink and pulled every bubble off. I did it in the sink because broken bubbles release more small bubbles. After I picked off ever possible bubble I point scalded the worse areas with hot water then rinsed each rock before returning to the tank. I then repeated every week or so until I stopped finding much. I then kept a sweezer next to the tank and forever more pulled a bubble every time I saw one. I had an incredible infestation but it has now been years since I have seen one in my system. Hundreds of pounds of rock. I learned a lesson about QT.

 

[flyline]

When doing water change use a small syphen hose to suck up the bubbles

 

[ccombs]

I just finished up successful removal. I used tweezers and removed one by one in the tank. I also got 2 emerald crabs. At first I was concerned about popping bubbles, but I noticed that the emerald crabs pop the bubbles when they eat them. So I continued to do a total removal with tweezers, and yeah, a bunch popped, even when I was careful. But now that I got the mega infestation cleared, the crabs keeps anything else that may crop up at bay.

 

[Injoynit]

I've been using Vibrant and it seems to be working for me. Took a few months.