Hair algae

black777

black777

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I have a 90 gal tank. I've been brushing off this hair algae on different rocks and it comes back. Any idea how to get rid of it
 
zsqure

zsqure

Member
Snails snails and more snails mexican turbo and astrea for rock and glass. Nassarius for sand. if your sand bed gets stirred on a regular basis the hair algae will not have a chance to grow. Have you added lights lately? are you feeding too much? Food high in phosphates? (pre packaged frozen). You can buy all those things to eat the algae but you should find out what is causing the out break. My tank has that problem too. I just purchased a better quality skimmer and I hope that puts a dent in the hair growth.
 
zsqure

zsqure

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And another thing, do a search for hair algae there are a lot of posts on the subject with many remedies.
 
t-bone

t-bone

Member
I have an algae blenny that devours hair algae. I bought a rock with some coral on it, but covered in hair algae. Put it in the tank around 10pm and woke up to a clean rock. Not much of a clean up crew in my tank at that time so it had to be the blenny.
 
black777

black777

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I just changed my lights, I have t5s, I just bought a blemmy. I have about 10 fish. I feed about just under a 1/2 teaspoon of pebble food called marine-5. some flake food and every second day I put in some lettuce. I'm going to pull back on the lighting a little and then go back I may try some new snails also
 
rkesling

rkesling

Member
I added a HOB fuge with Chaeto...(used a Aqualcear filter and a home depot clip on light) and have not had any algae problems for a few months now!!!
 
bill109

bill109

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Originally Posted by rkesling
http:///forum/post/2700927
I added a HOB fuge with Chaeto...(used a Aqualcear filter and a home depot clip on light) and have not had any algae problems for a few months now!!!
can you show some pics or start a new thread? i need a fuge and something cheap like this would be awesome! or PM me with them?
 
maingo

maingo

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I had a bad hair algea outbreak a while back. I traced it to tap water, the water that came out of my sink was testing off the charts with phosphates and it just kept building up in my tank via topoffs and such. Got me a cheap lowes RO unit Turbo snails used PhosGuard, and scrubed my rock problem solved. My phosphates are now at .5 which is about normal for a tank.
Heres a few picks of before and after the above methods I used.
Before


After




This is one of my Turbos keeping what pops up in check, because once you get it you got it. Up to you on if it ever gets out of control again..


I added a 5 gallon Fuge also with macro algea to help feed on the phosphates

 
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