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Thanks. All looking much healthier in that tank now. Excluding light certainly sorted out the BLue green algae. ( Cyanobacteria) the good thing is that it hasn't harmed the plants. They were struggling with the algae coating before - and now look much greener than before their blackout.

3 days blackout in the tank, covered with binbags, with reduced food seems to have done the job of eliminating the BGA (for the moment at least!)
I put an extra air pump into the tank too, and did daily water checks. No fish casualties. Tank looks much better now.

I use a siphon type vaccuum in this tank, and usually do a 30 percent waterchange fortnightly. But i check water weekly. If anything looks high I change water weekly. My other smaller tanks have no BGA at all. I' careful not to use same nets/ siphon in the other tanks. I put black binbags around the...

Lights are on for 12 hours.The tank is quite heavily planted with Java moss, Java ferns, cabomba, acorus, anubia, lace plant and a low growing plant I don't know the name of. Also 2 bits of bogwood. It has been cycled for just over a year. It has 12 Harlequin rasboro, 3 otos, 5 neons, 2 small gold m...

Thanks for the quick reply. My water readings are good in a 125 litre tank - 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, 20-40 nitrAte. Fish all fine. But can't shift cyanobActeria, which is in the form of slimy dark green coloured covering the plants.

New to this forum.
I'd like to get some Maracyn, but can't find it in the UK. Please could anyone tell me where I can buy it? Thanks
Gill