Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 9:56 am
Algae grows where there's light. If your tank is near a window it makes things a lot worse, but even the light from the basking lamps makes algae grow. The part of my basking area that is in the water is completely green, and although I scrub it off often it always comes back in a few days.
So as I said, as long as there's a light source shining directly on the tank, algae will form, there's not much you can do about it but clean it off. The 'good' part about it is that it's not harmful for your turtle, and the only problem it creates is bad aesthetics.
If you worry about algae growing on your RES, there's a very slim chance this could happen. Even if algae starts to grow on the turtle, when the turtle goes out to bask the algae would most likely die and just come off when the turtle goes back in the water. And I think it would have to live in a tank completely green with algae for the algae to start growing on him.
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Tank #1:
~Charlie - 4 inch male RES
Tank #2:
~Charlotte - 6 inch female RES
