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Algae revisited

I was just about ready to take pictures of my aquatic terrarium (paludarium) and all of a sudden, algae took over.

This was not the common algae most people find in fish tanks. My water was green with free floating algae, but at the same time, I had strands of hair-like algae (which I believe is indicative of high iron content), and a slimey, transparent, fluffy, emulsion which I believe to be Blue Green Algae (BGA or Cyanobacteria).

I was planning on using the aquatic portion of the terrarium for a utricularia before the algae took over.

If I had introduced a fast growing utricularia (or even duckweed), would this have helped to control the algae? Anybody seen this before?

BTW, my terrarium is totally disassembled for cleaning right now.
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Erythromycin clears up cyanobacteria outbreaks quite well although it is an atibacterial.
 
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