best algea consuming fish

[kinerson]

I started out with just a little green hair algea. Slowly it is spreading. It was introduced into my tank from a rock from another tank. I wasn't too woried about it since my system is fairly new with little phosphate and nitrate. But it does have intense lighting and was place under those lights because of light loving anemone on rock. I think I should get a good algea eating fish to help out so I was wondering what's the best. I have a Naso and Yellow tang but neither seem to bother with the hair algea.
Greg

 

[moggyhill]

no neither one really likes hair algae, I usually just manually remove it and scrub whatever it was on.

 

[markreefer]

What are your Phosphate and KH readings?

 

[kinerson]

I'll double check tonight. I'm not familar with how KH can effect algea.
Kinerson

 

[markreefer]

I had a severe problem with Green Hair Algae and I found that raising the kh to 16 for a period of two weeks resolved it. I cant say that it was definately the rise in KH which resolved it but the Green Hair Algae certainly dissapeared at that time. So I think its certainly worth a shot. It is important to remove the algae as regularly as you can otherwise as it dies, this will contribute to raising the phosphate level, which in turn fuels the algae.