Checked About 4-PM--Another Cyanobacteria Has Emerged...

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Originally Posted by XCR-700

YUCK,,,Is it time to bring back 2-cycle premix outboards and kill this stuff off? Never saw anything like this as a kid,,,

Love the smell of "white gas" and 40:1 premix in the morning, it smells like FUN!

While I agree--you must be a youngster.

Back in my day, the mix was a half-pint to a gallon! (16:1)

OK, back to the "sawdust" algae.

In yesterday's calm, in addition to the seasonal "sawdust" Gloeotrichia, I was able to check on "my" fresh water mussels.

There were none to be seen!

Where there should have been scores of mussels and their trails, there was only a huge field of an apparently new-to-me rooted algae.

(Thanks for the link cowislander).

As to stingray's filamentous algae, that came to "my" part of Lake Winnipesaukee about 1994. A friend from the opposite shore visited yesterday and agreed that back then, it was so thick that it had clogged our respective water intakes. It also appeared (then as now) as small green "tumbleweed" clusters on the bottom. (No bigger than a volleyball).

A darker-green filamentous variety appeared about the same time in a seasonal "brooklet" next to our dock. (As a reminder, the early 1990's was the Age of the McMansion).