Algae Question

[nymotts]

What the best way to get rid of green hair algae?

 

[cowboyswife]

Pick it off and suck it out with water changes. Make sure your parameters are up to par. Make sure you have enough flow. Dont let too much sunlight hit your tank. Use ro/di.

 

[The_Browns]

I would also get a phosban reactor

 

[cur10u5g30rg3]

If you don't have to many fragile corals some mexican turbo snails can really clean out the hair algae too.

 

[skinnyjoe1976]

if you would keep your sallylight foots out of your overflow they will help:lol: hows that feeding going?

 

[InLimbo87]

Manual removal, as said above really is best with getting the stuff out in a hurry.

What I did was used two rubbermaid tubs of freshwater. I pulled the stuff out as carefully as possible (turned pumps off, etc because I didn't want it to get blown around the water column), and shook it off my fingers into the first tub. Then, I would rinse my fingers in the second and go back at it again. I had found this somewhere online as a good method of removing it manually without getting it to spread everywhere in your tank.

I would also look to the source of what is causing all of this growth. How are your test parameters? Phosphates? Nitrates?

 

[JUICE!]

if you don't have blastomussa, micromussa, or acans, my tiger cowrie cleaned an entire infested 46G in two days, and is now cleaning an infested 75G

 

[nymotts]

It's a friend's tank i have to test water and see what everything at..I have redslime problems in my tank that are driving me crazy..

 

[nymotts]

juicey whats a tiger cowrie

 

[hexedagain]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12138583#post12138583 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by JUICEY
if you don't have blastomussa, micromussa, or acans, my tiger cowrie cleaned an entire infested 46G in two days, and is now cleaning an infested 75G

I second the cowrie.

 

[hexedagain]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12140465#post12140465 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by nymotts
juicey whats a tiger cowrie

http://www.peteducation.com/article.cfm?cls=16&cat=1906&articleid=2193

 

[chrisstie]

Clean up crew wise I would recommend a few trochus snails. They are less annoying than the turbos that can grow large and knock things over and they really do a great job.

Here's an interesting question though- are you absolutely sure its green hair algae? There are a lot of different types. If you could narrow down what species it is (RC has a great algae forum) it would be a little easier to attack it. For example some algaes have different predators than others.

Also, how old are your bulbs? Algae breakouts can be common when bulbs age and shift in spectrum - replacing any ones that are due should help as well.

Also sunlight shouldn't be a problem unless you have a lot of fuel in the tank to supercharge algae growth. Without the fuel sun is free food for your corals ;p