My aquarium has been without water for almost a year now and has this black slimy algae that covers some of the gravel. I've removed the gravel but it keeps coming back. When planting anything in the aquarium the black algae starts to cover the stems and choke them out. Normally I would just dry out the whole thing before starting again to kill the algae but I had anubias growing in there. I would cover the anubias with wet paper towel and managed to dry out most of the gravel and remove the infected gravel. I'm trying the dry-start method. It worked a year ago but then right before I was going to fill the tank this black stuff started to cover the HC and eventually covered it all and killed it. I haven't been able to order more HC for almost a year.
Now I've recieved more glosso and HC and planted it in there and want to know if there's something I can spray on the gravel that would kill this slimy black algae and not harm the HC or glosso. It's just a pain to pick out the infected gravel.
Thanks!
Now I've recieved more glosso and HC and planted it in there and want to know if there's something I can spray on the gravel that would kill this slimy black algae and not harm the HC or glosso. It's just a pain to pick out the infected gravel.
Thanks!
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