The battle not over

[mikeymutt]

I Glad to say that my battle with hair alge is starting a turn for the better.I covered the tank for 48 hrs and noticed that my cleaning was hard at work. I also tested my water,everything is ok execpt for phosphates reading a hint of blue.. Any advice to remove it any faster Thanks

 

[dinogeorge]

In the past I have used phosphate pads with some luck, but you have to make sure to remove them within a day or so of adding them. Otherwise the phosphates that they remove will be re-released back into your tank.
But my advice would be to let things take their coarse. In this hobby, the worst thing to do is try to accelerate cures.
Good luck man.

 

[mcbdz]

Add some macro algeas to compete for the phos.

 

[snakeblitz33]

manually removing some of the hair algae. Next time you do a water change, attach a scraper to the vinyl hose and scrape off the hair algae on your glass while your siphoning it out .
If most of it is on your rocks, you can always take your rocks out with some of the tank water, then in a 5 gal bucket scrub the rocks with a toothbrush in all of the hard spots, then rinse with freshwater (ro/di) and immediately dip it back into saltwater. The freshwater will rinse off all of the spores.
Something less drastic that you can do is cover the tank for 48 to 72 hours, and after it is dead, immediately do a water change and suck up as much as you can (no more then 50% water change. Then add a phosphate sponge. Make sure to remove to sponge after a couple of days.
You may be adding phosphate to the water by feeding too much, using a bad source of water etc. Change up some stuff and you will have better success.
Good luck!