Did you see King5 news?

Green Lake has  "blue/green algae"! Could this be the dreaded cyanobacteria found in our hobby. NASTY I have a 30 gallon battling with a severe case of this stuff. My fingers stink whenever I feed the fish. Could you imagine a whole lake full of this stuff?!? Could you imagine swimming in it?!? OMG!

They were talking about dogs drinking the water and getting sick... pretty gross, I wouldn't swim in that lake anyway though, even without that stuff

Maybe they should call it Blue-Green Lake?

I'll be tearing down, thoroughly cleaning, and completely re-doing the 10g tank with safe-t-sorb where I have the stuff, possibly as soon as this weekend. Done with that crap substrate - nothing but trouble for me.

Blackouts would kill the stuff, but it would just come back, even with high potassium nitrate dosing. Safe-t-sorb sucks up everything and ruins Christmas.

I remember back in the 80's when someone let a Caiman ( small gator ) loose in the lake and it was eating ducklings. The local radio station even did a parody song about it.

fishNAbowl wrote:Green Lake has  "blue/green algae"! Could this be the dreaded cyanobacteria found in our hobby. NASTY I have a 30 gallon battling with a severe case of this stuff. My fingers stink whenever I feed the fish. Could you imagine a whole lake full of this stuff?!? Could you imagine swimming in it?!? OMG!

someone mustve been slipping on their water changes

Paintguy wrote:I remember back in the 80's when someone let a Caiman ( small gator ) loose in the lake and it was eating ducklings. The local radio station even did a parody song about it.

Wow, could you imagine running into one of these swimming?

Green lake has had this issue for years, nothing new. While most think it's a decent lake which it is for the most part, it's an intercity lake. No real inflow-in or out as far as I know. Start adding no amounts of rain and hot temps bingo there you go. The city could improve it but why, that cost money!

I wonder how many people eat fish from there?

i work in the area and have for a cpl years.. they always have signs posted to not fish and what not, plus with all the weeds its a pain in the butt. its all those herbicides and urban runoff slowly ruining the lake, but hey its nice to jog around still!

Anthraxx wrote:i work in the area and have for a cpl years.. they always have signs posted to not fish and what not, plus with all the weeds its a pain in the butt. its all those herbicides and urban runoff slowly ruining the lake, but hey its nice to jog around still!

It was also great for meeting chicks,   I use to jog around there (not always for exercise) in the mid eighties before I moved to Dutch Hbr..

JimA wrote:
 It was also great for meeting chicks,     I use to jog around there (not always for exercise)  in the mid eighties before I moved to Dutch Hbr..  

gary ridgeway was livin' large at the time, that didn't put a damper on things?