Hair Algae Help please

[TomDe]

I am having a lot of green hair algae growth and it is stressing me out bad because it is starting to grow near my corals.

I am not going to lie, I rushed things. I added a bunch of corals after the cycle thinking it was fine until I became a little more educated about 6+ months of algae blooms!

So far I have cut feedings (Mysis) to every other day, and got an RO/DI

Now, I want to know if I can cut the lights from 11hrs to a lesser amount to try and lessen the algae. Will this hurt my corals for a few days?

Any advice?

 

[tkeracer619]

I run my lights for 10 hours a day. Only 7 really strong.

What all is in your tank, mysis every other day is quite a lot. Thats how often I feed my sun coral!!

Feed flake for the fish and keep doing water changes.

Need something that eats it.

Do you have a skimmer?

 

[TomDe]

I have a Bak Pak2.

Mysis every other day is alot? I was feeding my 2 clowns pellets but my Royal Gama didn't eat it. I started feeding Mysis because Everybody eats it from the fish, snails, hermits, peppermints, brittle star.......

I got 3 emerald crabs and some ceriths for the alage.

If I cut back on the Mysis, will my fish be ok only eating every 3 days?

What about the lights? Can I vut back for a few days?

 

[tkeracer619]

Cut them back 30 minutes to an hour over a weeks time.

You can still feed daily, but I would use flake and feed the mysis as a treat every couple days. You don't need to feed anything but the fish or corals that require spot feeding. everything else gets the leftovers or filter feeds.

 

[daveonbass]

here was my endevor:

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=825964

 

[FLricordia]

a friend of mine used this in her 75gl when it had lots of hair and cyano. and in 2 weeks time the tank was cleared up. afterwards proper husbandry is crucial or it will just come back.
http://www.drsfostersmith.com/Produ...ll&Ntx=mode+matchallpartial&Np=1&N=2004&Nty=1

 

[TomDe]

Dave,

I am sorry you had to go through that. I actually read it last night when I was looking at algae posts. I am doing alot of PWC and manual removal just because I don't want this to ever happen. Thanks for sharing