{"id":1980,"date":"2015-07-05T09:29:49","date_gmt":"2015-07-05T09:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/?p=1980"},"modified":"2015-07-05T09:29:49","modified_gmt":"2015-07-05T09:29:49","slug":"it-worked-black-hair-algae-no-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/?p=1980","title":{"rendered":"It worked! Black hair algae no more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/20.166.29.245\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/flowering_anubias.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1981\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1981\" src=\"http:\/\/20.166.29.245\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/flowering_anubias-238x300.jpg\" alt=\"Flowering Anubias\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/flowering_anubias-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/justthesam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/flowering_anubias.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I posted recently about <a href=\"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/2015\/05\/banishing-black-hair-algae\/\">my latest attempt to banish the dreaded black hair algae<\/a> from my tropical aquarium. Well, I&#8217;m happy to say that it seems to have worked and now keeping the tank clean is a breeze! No more scraping, scrubbing and bleaching everything in the tank every few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>To reiterate, the new tactics were as follows, aimed at lowering the phosphates that were probably powering the algae&#8217;s rampant growth.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Add live plants, to consume the phosphates in the water.<\/li>\n<li>Change the feeding regime:\n<ul>\n<li>use a lower-phosphate food, rather than the &#8220;premium&#8221; stuff we had been using<\/li>\n<li>feed less\u00a0overall, as we were probably over-feeding and the excess, high-phosphate food was lingering.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I had been battling this scourge for the last year or more, so I am delighted\u00a0to have solved the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Also, live plants are more fun than plastic ones. The Anubias is flowering already, as you can see in the picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted recently about my latest attempt to banish the dreaded black hair algae from my tropical aquarium. Well, I&#8217;m happy to say that it seems to have worked and now keeping the tank clean is a breeze! No more scraping, scrubbing and bleaching everything in the tank every few weeks. To reiterate, the new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tropical-fish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}