Anything eat green hair algae?

[kyarnkid]

I have a live rock that is covered in this stuff and I cannot stand it anymore. I tried to use a baster as a vacuum and the hair is so thick that it just moves it back and forth, same with the algae on the sand. I got so frustrated the other night that I just stirred the green alage up on the sand bad.
So I was wondering, is their any invert that will clean this crap up, I got an algae blenny(I thank fshhub for the great recommendation on that thing), but I know he cannot carry the load of eathing all the algae.
Thanks guys

 

[fshhub]

you can pick it by hand, but use a glove, it takes some time, but to overcome green algae, some tangs, an algae blenny, or trochus sanails wil help, if it is not too long, eventually, if you keep it down, and your calcium up, the coraline will eventually take over, an dthen will help to control your other PIA algaes, but green i s a normal thing in a new tank, it just takes patience,a nd also, if you have phosphates, tha could be part of the prob too
HTH

 

[kyarnkid]

Thanks hub,
Always there when I need you

 

[fshhub]

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[exotickeeper]

you really don't need to do all that, just buy about about 30 or more blue legged crabs, the real small ones, they take care of ALL hair algae
within about a week or so.!

 

[fishfood]

IMO and Experience blue legs do nothing for green hair algae. I have a cleaner kit from here and it had 30 blue legs, 25 scarlet hermits, and i think 20 - 30 snails plus a few other things. They have been in the tank now for 3 - 4 months and I haven't seen them touch the stuff. Actually they have been eating my snails even though i had about 30 - 40 empty shells in the tank!

 

[jonthefb]

Trochus snails have got to be the best cure for hair algae. I had a couple of pieces of rok that were covered in the stuff. Ipurchased 6 from ipsf, and days later, it was gone. Now the sanils happily graze onthe glass on on other areas of the tank, but two thumbs up to these guys. they are amazing!!!

 

[shel]

I have been battling hair algae my self. Nobody really likes the stuff. I did but 2 truchus snails the other nite and I think they have been working on it. I will pick up a couple more on sat. As for my blue leg hermit crabs, they do not touch the stuff. They do not show any interest in it. (Maybe I have picky ones ) I also will take the time and remove it by hand. Also like hub said keep your water good. Also if your lighting is old that will cause algae to grow, I replace mine once a year.

 

[queequegbls]

i had a hair algae problem too. I bought astreas and scarlet hermits but they did nothing. Finally I got a sally lightfoot. That little guy is a lawnmower. He never stops moving. He even cleans the LS.

 

[peasly1]

If.... you are not overfeeding then phosphates is probably the problem

 

[kyarnkid]

So my algae will eventually dissapear if I elemenate the problems right? or will I have get the algae out or get a creature to get it out?

 

[k.lee]

Hippo or Regal tangs love oit, IIRC. Been a while since I had my hippo. Also clown tangs love it, but maybe more hard to keep, or grow bigger. My clown tang went missing after I added a harlequin tusk and bicolor parrot to my 75 gallen fish only wioth LR. Where is he???

 

[k.lee]

I had the clown tang for about two years, and he/she never ate one piece of introduced food, only algae.

 

[fshhub]

it will subside much faster, if you prune it or scrub it regularly(this will noly help),
how long are you r lights on, and what lighting sdo you have, i cannot remember if htat was covered yet,
plus the snails will help, but as i said, get trochus not turbos

 

[captained]

Adding macro algae can help as well- you can get Caulerpa pretty cheap, and it's a little higher up the food chain and will consume the nitrates faster than that EVIL hair algae that needs it to live on.
If you have herbivores, the Caulerpa and other seaweeds are much tastier than the hair algae and they will eat it for lunch, so if you don't have a sump or refugium, you'll have to be creative in "protecting it." I would guess that you might be able to keep it in a mesh bag, but I don't know if that would work.