I have a bad case of cyano and canโt find why, Nitrates are 5ppm, phosphate .25. I have upped the flow in the tank and been doing 25% water changes once a week. Iโm running out of ideas here any help is appreciated.
Hello,
I've been struggling with a cyanobacteria infestation in my turtle tank. After some research, I saw that erythromycin works well in fish tanks. My question is, is it safe for my yellow-bellied slider?
She's about 5 years old without any health issues.
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Hey everyone! My wife and I are heading to Zion for a few days and weโre planning on hiking the Narrows either this Sunday or Monday. With Cyanobacteria warnings, should we be worried? We have water bladders and some water bottles we were going to bring so we werenโt planning on filtering water. Just curious if itโs really bad and if anyone who has done it recently has felt sick afterwards.
Thanks!
I am worried that if blue green algea grows in my tank, it can be harmful to me. I have my aquarium in my room
Hi, I'm in need of help battling cyanobacteria in my freshwater 10g tank. I have gotten rid of the more advanced slime but my sand is continuously getting light green hues and my floating plants having blue-green roots. My sponge filter is constantly green even when I wash it out and clean it (with tank water). Is there any good solution for this other than continuously vacuuming the tank? I'm afraid I'm stressed my fish and shrimp out too much doing this every other day. Thank you
Hey everyone, we're starting a side project over at the lab to isolate some cyanobacteria from a wild sample. I'm thinking of using BG-11 as a culture media to try and isolate some samples of Synechococcus. I'm just not sure what sort of light they grow on, and if i'm trying to grow salt water cyanobacteria, do i need to use salts or anything on top of the BG-11 media.
I'm in desperate need of a list of epiphytic and/or endophytic cyanobacteria species. Either a website or, better yet, a peer reviewed paper would be extremely helpful to me.
A place for members of r/cyanobacteria to chat with each other
First planted tank, it's been a huge learning experience. I had to scrap my first substrate after some issues, and ended up using sand since it was available. I think I made a beginner mistake and added too deep a sand layer. I started noticing a bad smell a few weeks ago, but couldn't pin down why. Fully cycled five gallon, freshwater tank, using api fresh water master test kit, last check yesterday pH 7.4, ammonia 0, nitrites 0, nitrates 5 ppm, temp 75 with a heater, using a single sponge filter, only inhabitant is a nerite snail. A few different stem plants with a clump of dwarf hair grass and some floating elodea. I noticed a blue green tint to some sand a few days ago, and then yesterday noticed it spreading. It still is underneath the sand. I have done a few water changes and poked all over the sand but there is still a large patch. Is this bad for the snail, plants or future fish inhabitants? If so, what do I need to do next?
Is anyone taking spirulina daily? Do you feel any significant effect taking it?
Edit: someone pointed out that this question came out as disingenuous and I thank him/her for it. I didn't mean to and I also take spirulina everyday. I just want to know what your thoughts are about this.
Here are some links saying that spirulina may be contaminated by cyanobacteria BMAA. Spirulina itself don't produce this bacteria but can be contaminated by its surrounding environment.
Link 2 https://nutritionfacts.org/topics/blue-green-algae/
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Are Toxins In Seafood Causing ALS, Alzheimer's, And Parkinson's?
The discovery of an unknown disease in Guam has led to findings about our most debilitating conditions and potential toxins lurking in bodies of water
By Kathleen McAuliffeJul 21, 2011 8:00 PM
Three fish await sale at a market in the Galรกpagos. Could exposure to cynobacteria and overload of BMAA make them a health threat instead of a nutritious meal?
Elijah Stommel, a neurologist at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock medical center in New Hampshire, often has to deliver bad news to his patients, but there is one diagnosis he particularly dreads. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, kills motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord, progressively paralyzing the body until even swallowing and breathing become impossible. The cause of ALS is unknown. Though of little solace to the afflicted, Stommel used to offer one comforting fact: ALS was rare, randomly striking just two of 100,000 people a year.
Then, a couple of years ago, in an effort to gain more insight into the disease, Stommel enlisted students to punch the street addresses of about 200 of his ALS patients into Google Earth. The distribution of cases that emerged on the computer-generated map of New England shocked him. In numbers far higher than national statistics predicted, his current and deceased patientsโ homes were clustered around lakes and other bodies of water. The flurry of dots marking their locations was thickest of all around bucolic Mascoma Lake, a rural area just 10 miles from Dartmouth Medical School. About a dozen cases turned up there, the majority diagnosed within the past decade. The pattern did not appear random at all. โI started thinking maybe there was something in the water,โ Stommel says.
That โsomething,โ he now suspects, could be the environmental toxin beta-methylamino-L-alanine, or BMAA. This compound is produced by cyanobacteria, the blue-green algae that live in soil, lakes, and oceans. Cyanobacteria are consumed by fish and other aquatic creatures. Recent studies have found BMAA in seafood, suggesting that certain diets and locations may put people at particular risk. More worrisome, blooms of cyanobacteria are becoming increasingly common, fueling fears that their toxic by-product may be quietly fomenting an upsurge in ALSโand possibly other neurological disorders like Alzheimerโs disease and Parkinsonโs as well.
The stakes are so high that 21 research teams from 1
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