Best way to remove hair algae?
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Frogmanx82
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Fluconazole worked for me. My tank was plagued with it. One treatment last July and there is still not even a single strand of it to be found. Even the cheato in my fuge is completely hair free.
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Youve got options. Fluconazole is a newer treatment to the market, and is available now in bottled products designed for the tank, not needing a prescription like before (it's an anti-fungal medication for humans and dogs/other animals). Vibrant is another bottled product I understand works pretty well. If your tank is large enough, rabbitfish, tangs, algae blennies (mine ignores hair algae though) can be helpful. I find rabbitfish (foxfaces) to be way more effective than tangs. If your tank is 100 gallons or greater, and you have a foxface, you will never have to worry about bubble algae.
Urchins to me have been the most effective algae control method though. Yes, they will pick up loose frags as they move about, and they can dislodge smaller sized rocks, but they will pick every surface they go over completely clean, coraline included. Just ensure any frags you have or rock work you have is secure. A small urchin wont move a huge football sized rock or bigger, but anything roughly double its size or smaller can and will be pulled/pushed or picked up
Urchins to me have been the most effective algae control method though. Yes, they will pick up loose frags as they move about, and they can dislodge smaller sized rocks, but they will pick every surface they go over completely clean, coraline included. Just ensure any frags you have or rock work you have is secure. A small urchin wont move a huge football sized rock or bigger, but anything roughly double its size or smaller can and will be pulled/pushed or picked up
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I did a water change and stored the old water in a separate brute container. Then mixed a high concentration of API Marine AlgaeFix into it. Took half my rock out and put it in the mix along with a heater and pump for 5 days (I didn't want to kill the beneficial bacteria in the rock & from what I understand is AlgaeFix doesn't do this). Most of the Algae had separated from the rock, some still attached but was clear/white, so I took a toothbrush to it and removed it.
Same for the other half of the rocks.
Same for the other half of the rocks.
Problem for me is that it's the sand. I noticed spots in the sand getting darker. So I was thinking tomorrow I'll go ahead and do a water change and go get a phosphate test kit to see what the levels are for that. But also. My snails have done a damn good job of cleaning my rocks. Damn near perfect
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With your teeth! Get in there and start gnawing at it! :lolspin:
I had this exact same problem a few months ago. I started vacuuming the sand with each water change (every two weeks) and it eventually went away. I'm assuming it was a build up of detritus in the sand that caused it.
Also what kind of lighting are you using? I was using florescent freshwater bulbs at the time and once I switched over to 50/50 bulbs I think that helped it stop growing as well.
Also what kind of lighting are you using? I was using florescent freshwater bulbs at the time and once I switched over to 50/50 bulbs I think that helped it stop growing as well.
I was using freshwater bulbs as well. But I switched to the coralife 50/50 bulbs x2 (10k at 50%/ actinic blue at 50%). But I've been using these bulbs for about two weeks. I was also thinking about doing a HOB sump. To help fight phosphates and nitrates.
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I'm using a fluval 206 canister. Don't have a slimmer yet. Was going to be looking into an HOB of that as well.
But I sent my wife on a research mission looking for that Fluconazole. And she found something called reef flux. Only thing she could find in regards to that subject.
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