Do You Need Algaecide for Salt Water Pools?
Salt water pools are pretty easy to maintain compared to your average chlorine pool. With these pools, natural salt is converted into chlorine to combat algae…
Algae are interesting for a number of reasons
- They are primary producers at the root of many aquatic food chains, and an important component of biodiversity
- They are objects of great beauty in their own right, unfortunately usually overlooked
- They are very sensitive indicators of environmental conditions, and a study of their variety in a waterbody can reveal much about water quality.
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What Is The Best Above Ground Pool Vacuum for Algae
Above-ground pools have become quite popular these past few years. Those temporary pop-up pools are ideal for tenants who might not be allowed to create permanent…
Planktonic Unicellular and Colonial algae
Phylum Chlorophyta Botryococcus Colonial Chlorophyte: planktonic, sometimes bloom-forming. Colony is very dense, making cells hard to see; contains yellow oil droplets which can be squeezed out…
The Genus Spirogyra
Phylum Chlorophyta; sub-phylum Chlorophyceae; Order Zygnematales; Family Zygnemataceae Spirogyra species are unbranched filamentous green algae. The cell wall is characteristically straight and parallel-sided (compare with Oedogonium,…
The Genus Microspora
Phylum Chlorophyta; sub-phylum Chlorophyceae; Order Ulotrichales; Family Microsporaceae Microspora species are unbranched filamentous green algae. There is a single dense net-like chloroplast, usually filling the cell,…
The Genus Mougeotia
Phylum Chlorophyta, sub-phylum Chlorophyceae, order Zygnematales, fam. Zygnemataceae. Mougeotia species are unbranched filamentous green algae. The cell wall is characteristically straight and parallel-sided (compare with Oedogonium, Microspora or Stigeoclonium, which…