new LR with hair alage!

devaji108

devaji108

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Just pick up 25-35 # of LR from a chap that is tarring down his tank.
Even got a couple of corals!!

The Q? is it has a fair amount of hair algae on it. The LR looks good but I don’t like hair Algae (not that anyone does) so what is the best way to get rid of it BEFORE IT GOES IN TO MY TANK. I tried using a clean tooth brush? Any feed back?
Thanks Deva
 
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reeffer

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Originally Posted by Devaji108
Just pick up 25-35 # of LR from a chap that is tarring down his tank.
Even got a couple of corals!!

The Q? is it has a fair amount of hair algae on it. The LR looks good but I don’t like hair Algae (not that anyone does) so what is the best way to get rid of it BEFORE IT GOES IN TO MY TANK. I tried using a clean tooth brush? Any feed back?
Thanks Deva
im sure you know turbos snails will take care of it in no time, but as far as before hand i dont know?? i would say tooth brush like you have
 
devaji108

devaji108

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Yes but don’t turbo snails wreck havoc in your tank by knocking over corals and such? That is what I have heard. That is why I stayed any from them.
 
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reeffer

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Originally Posted by Devaji108
Yes but don’t turbo snails wreck havoc in your tank by knocking over corals and such? That is what I have heard. That is why I stayed any from them.
im not sure how many corals you have but i had two turbos in a 24g nano with about 10coral and they never bothered one..there all in a 135 now and still no probs...
i used the turbos to stop the hair algae i had every where

 
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reeffer

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they cleaned that first pic in about 3 days including the red hair algae

the second is a year later and there both still kickin
 
lion_crazz

lion_crazz

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Yeah I have to agree on the mexican turbos. They took care of my hair algae problem with no hesitation. It was gone in a matter of a few days.
 
rappa

rappa

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I have a few turbos. One is the size of a baseball almost. haven't had any problems yet.
 
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