Abouttina quiao Expertise I can answer all questions about chemistry of water and I would say, I am familiar with almost all diseases of fresh and saltwater fish. I have had my 125 tropical salt and 45 agressive for yrs. I managed a petshop for five years and I am a petcare specialist for a large petchain now. I love my animals. I love this kind of work. Helping people keep their fish sucessfully is so rewarding to me.
Experience I managed a petshop in Bridgeton called Petpourri for about 5 years...I am a petcare specialist for a large pet chain. I have 2 African greys, a Nandey conure,a potbelly pig, 2 rats and a hamster. Oh and did I mention a 125 tropical salt and a 45 agressive salt. I have had brakish and fresh. I am very familiar with disese and chemistry of your tank. I also have 2 senegul chameleons and the anoles that live in the bottom of their 37 high tank. We keep tons of reptiles at the store and keep a couple as pets love them all. I have worked in the pet business for yrs.....along with taking care of all of mine.
Expert: tina quiao Date: 2/1/2008 Subject: african chiclids and algae
Question hello real person,i have a 55g african chiclid tank, not in dirct light,i do not over feed,watch over my ph and water temp.keep everyone happy but me.there is a brown algae that creeps in and covers everything.....apart from scrubbing it off i don't know what to do....no department store chemicals please.i keep it all simple.any help???
Answer Laurie, Your brown algae are diatoms. If you have city water sometimes they use so much buffer too soften the water it makes them grow very rapidly. If you have well water you may be by farming community and fertilizer makes this grow rapidly. The only thing I can recommend to you is reverse osmosis. This is a very fancy term that means replace your water from another source. Go to moms or a friend whos water comes from a different source and replace as you do water changes. You can also use bottled water not distilled just cheap gallons of pathmark or grocery water. Do this everytime you do a water change do part of it with this other water and eventually your water will be more of another water than your tap and that should help it. You can get Jungle algae no more tabs and that will also help break up some of that organic matter.....Good Luck, Tina
