green hair

[jbupland]

ok what do you guys sugest to eliminate my green hair algae i just got this yellow tang and he is eating it i dont know if it is good for him or not so i think i may want to get rid of it but you guys kno better so any advice ould be super

 

[Arati]

I think you said you have a tang. and your sig says 20gal tank. that true? also its fine let the tang eat all he can.

 

[Deprecated]

The tang is fine eating the hair algae.

Hair algae is usually a sign of something being out of whack though, excess nutrients, etc. How old is the tank? Have you done any testing recently?

To truly eliminate the hair algae though, you need to find the source of the problem.

 

[jbupland]

yeah i actualy just got over a major loss of everything except my little snowflake eel did a test and some how within 6 hours my amonia went to a toxic level so we got everything back to normal and my nitrats are a bit high but nothing major and i do have to change my sig the tank is at this point a 110 gallon

 

[joeycadre]

are you using ro/di water?

 

[jbupland]

no normal tap treated with amquel plus

 

[jbupland]

the thing is when i lost everything is when it started and i lost 3 brital stars 1 chocolate chip star 2 general stars 2 turbo snails and i havent been able to replace them as of yet i just started restocking the tank in the past 2 weeks the incident took place about a month and a half ago although it didnt have any affect on my crustations my mushrooms or another litle lps i have but everything is doing well now the tank is no fairly well stocked it has the yellow tang about 1 inch or so about 8 little damsles with cool blue spots near the dorsal a little tiny grouper a small snowflake eel about 4 inches long a cinamon clown and a spoted hawk the owns everything or so he thinks and 2 condies

 

[chucksta1]

Try testing the tapwater for phosphates. The "fuel" for the green hair algae has to come from somewhere. You tank may well show zero as it's being absorbed by the GH algae, but may show present in the tap water, (I learned this one the hard way).

 

[BLKTANG]

I heard somewhere that you can drip acclimate Dalmation Mollies,& they will eat all types of nusicance algae.

 

[schigara]

1.Ro/DI water that tests at 0 TDS
2.Feed less and rinse frozen food.
3.Common Turbo Snails, they will mow HA as long as it's not really tall.
4.Phosban, Rowasphos, Phoslock.....any GFO media run in a reactor.

A Tang won't even make a dent in hair algae compared to 5 large turbo snails.

 

[mattsilvester]

Green hair algae = nutrient problem

What are your parameters?

Creatures "eating" the hair algae will not eliminate the problem..... it just recycles the nutients..... Sure it will help, becuse the skimemr can access those recycled nutrients more readily..... but to break the cycle, you need to fix the nutrient issue.....

For that we need a full system description - equipment / stock / feeding & maintenance regime, along with a set of paramters.... ammonia / nitrite / nitrate / phosphate / alkalinity / pH / Temperature.

 

[silvers]

Other than good husbandry a Giant seahare will do wonders try to find one about 4'' long.

 

[jbupland]

ok give me a day or 2 so i can get a better test kit right now i only have a kit that does ph /nitrates /nitrites and amonia

 

[jbupland]

would my hob refug have anything to do with it

 

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would my hob refug have anything to do with it

Depends on what you have in there? Any sponges, bio balls, etc? If you have something in there collecting waste and holding it in the system it could create nutrient problems.