Is algae poisonous

[Bad Inferno]

Although I change 30% water every 2 days I have a bit of brown and green algae growing in my BB tank. Green algae is in my in-tank overflow. This tank is not in general view so I don’t really care about aesthetics and how it looks. Although do care about my fish....

Is algae harmful to discus.

cheers rob

[Merrilyn]

The normal brown or green algae is fine, and harmless to fish.

[Bad Inferno]

Thanks ladyred.... I know I should improve my tank houskeeping however knowing its not harmful I do feel alot better.

[DR.V]

maybe because your tank got direct hit by sunlight ?

[Bad Inferno]

Yeh this tank is in my garage which has a door in front and open at the back. Hence alot of light does get into the garage, however no direct sunlight onto the tank....I have a corner partition within the tank that is the overflow.....Next time the tank is empty I might look at sticking some black contact on the internal piece of glass that partitions off the overflow area. Its a real pain trying the clean the overflow section as its only about 4" square within the rear corner. I looked at mentone aquarium and they use what looks like blue contact paper to hide their overflows on their marine tanks and the contact is underwater.

[DR.V]

I also have an overflow and i use scruber with a stick on it. It makes cleaning easier so you dont have to put your hand inside the box. Should buy one of this thing

[Bad Inferno]

Yeh I got one however my tank is in a rack so I have limited room ontop of the tank .......

[DR.V]

hehehe too bad