Hair Algae! What do I do?

[time4fun]

Ok, so my newest 125g tank is about a month old with about 90lbs of live rock... I have a few corals and some fish about 10 sacrlet scrabs and a few snails...... The green hair agae on the substrate is out of control... Any suggestions? It is driving me nuts!

 

[sharkboy13]

get some sand sifting crabs or a syphon

 

[fbm]

My sailfin tang is a monster hair algea eater, but I don' think you should add anymore fish at least for a while.
Try cutting down on your lighting duration.

 

[kimc]

Try a couple of mexican turbo snails.

 

[snookedsteve]

Nitrates? Low Flow? Phosphates? Lighting? What is causing the algae to be out of control. When you figure that out you can get it under control. Snails will not be too effective with algae in the sand.

 

[re_vogel]

it is probably being caused by high phosphates. A phosphate remover such as Phoban should do the trick...

 

[snookedsteve]

After all that I also had removed as much of the algae as I could and added another thin layer of sand.

 

[bellanavis]

Try a seahare, they are great alge eaters, trust me, and they are cool to have, very social.