Note in the first set of pictures, that the algae is growing in generally characteristic conditions: 1. clear water, 2. water with blue dye (usually), 3. black sediments, 4. no bottom activity, 5. bare bottom, no other plants growing on the bottom because all the other natural plant competition has been eliminated usually with chemicals. Natural competition usually keeps Lyngbya from becoming abundant. This is a common 'habitat' for this particular type of Lyngbya. There are numerous species of Lyngbya, Leptolyngbya, Oscillatoria and Phormidium. Lyngbya and its close genera relatives tend to be resistant thus they grow where all other less nuisance species were eliminated or cannot grow.
Last edited by Bill Cody; 03/18/14 09:07 AM.
