hair algae

littleliza

littleliza

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I'm starting to get outcroppings of hair algae throughout my little tank. I'll manually pull it out once or twice a month, but I'm wondering if that just makes it worse by spreading it. How else can I safely reduce it? Everything is growing great right now and it's only a 2 month old tank. Phosphates or something? It's also growing on the head of my pump for water flow, so is it jetting out new sprigs continuously? I usually prune that back, too, but it's resilliant as heck. Tenacious stuff. I don't really mind a little here and there, but I want to try to get control of it before it becomes a real problem. Thanks!
 
K

kimc

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Hey Littleliza, I have had success with Mexican Turbo snails. Hair algae sucks!!! Good luck... Kim
 
nanomantis

nanomantis

Member
in my experience the only snail that activly eats hair algae are cerith snails, however i would definetly try a sea hair if u can find one they are probably the best for eating hair algae.
 
gregzbobo

gregzbobo

Member
Originally Posted by kenneth 45
any one got a pic of a sea hair? what is a sea hair?
Do you mean a sea hare? If so its sort of related to nudibranchs I THINK. don't quote me on that though.
 
ninjamini

ninjamini

Active Member
I have to second the mexican. After my cycle was over I developed a bad hair algae growth. It was everywhere. Well I went away for a week and the tank was unattended. I returned to a tank of nothing but green. Back walls were hairier than the 40 year old virgins back. Well A couple of turbos, a mexican and an emerald and 3 days ant the tank was clean. The mexican plowed through like a weed hog (the kind on tv) a second pass and it was clean.
Good luck.
 
bigarn

bigarn

Active Member
Originally Posted by kenneth 45
what is a mexican and what is an emerald :help:
Mexican turbo snails ..... Emerald crabs

Or ... a native of Mexico and a green gemstone. :hilarious
 
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