Rogues' Gallery

Cyanobacteria, Blue-green Algae

Fixing nitrogen one minute, poisoning your water the next - spicing things up with a side of toxins, making your water unsafe for drinking, swimming, or even watering your garden! Also known to instigate the occasional fish-kill party through oxygen depletion.

Found naturally in every moist environment such as damp soils, lakes, ponds and slow moving rivers.

Skin irritation and allergic reactions to severe liver, neurological damage and animal deaths. Toxins are implicated in cancer.

Pay attention to public health advisories, do not swim or allow your pets to access water subject to high risk alerts, be aware of and do not enter water with ‘musty’ smells and surface scums, do not drink untreated water.