absolutecarrot
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So my tank has an outbreak of hair algae .For anyone who has felt with hair algae what did you do and what did you use
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Hair algae
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Cherokee_Dude
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I'm with you. 20 Astreas and time. Add in water changes until phosphates drop (Maybe 2 months worth of time). I might run GFO and carbon alongside as well. This is for a 120 tank.
I used a dolabella sea hare to get rid of the algae then do this kind of maintenance above to keep it from returning.
Honestly, that sea hare was amazing.
Snails and water changes.
MrX
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Don't you have a relatively new tank?
I wouldn't do anything except snails and water changes as mentioned. You could also reduce feeding and reduce your light cycle some.
I wouldn't start throwing chemicals or anything radical at it.
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absolutecarrot
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Budget_Reef
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Any photos?
MrX
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It's hard I know. I had to look at my tank for 3+ weeks with all that nasty brown algae. Finally cleared and now I'm past it; but man, did I ever want to do something "quick".
Now my cleanup crew is handling the little wisps of green algae that start to show up. Balance of everything seems to be good so far *knock on wood*.
Patience is king (or queen).
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absolutecarrot
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absolutecarrot
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Yea that’s sort of what I’m doing thanks for the advice
Budget_Reef
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I would stop using reef roids it's to early to be pumping your tank with that sort of stuff yet
gobyvin
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Maybe make sure you have enough snails/hermits to eat it all up too. Don’t go overboard though, the 1/gal 2/gal rules don’t exactly apply in my book. CUC is bioload too, and they need to eat to survive, so if you have excess algae, try adding CUC. I am most partial to Trochus snails. They live longest, survive best, and if you are lucky... reproduce in captivity to give you free helpers!!! Like everything in this hobby, move slow be patient make changes slowly.
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absolutecarrot
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This weekend I’m going to get some more snails
Snails water changes. Gfo the only other thing to do would be scub it off and syphin the hair out. Had to do that once had 3" of hair on the all the rock took like 6 hours of scrubing then a big water change and snails took care of it. How is your water source? Make sure you are still getting 0 tds out of it.
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absolutecarrot
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I’m getting my water from a scientific lab so I don’t think that’s the problem but I just got a couple more snails which will help
Manual removal with tweezers and a toothbrush may help.
Owen386
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I'm not the best reefer I have gotten better over the years and have learned to not throw bandaids at stuff get ahead of it good husbandry etc etc....
With that said when I was dealing with a bad hair algae outbreak years ago after trying everything else I said screw it and bought a sea hare and my God my HA was bad and this stuff was gone in a week the hare gobbled up every last but of the stuff...
With that said when I was dealing with a bad hair algae outbreak years ago after trying everything else I said screw it and bought a sea hare and my God my HA was bad and this stuff was gone in a week the hare gobbled up every last but of the stuff...
