Hair Algae

[Hockeyben51]

I am having hair algae apear in my sand. How can i get rid of it?

 

[Hockeyben51]

anyone?

 

[Sk8r]

A small conch will go after it, but may loose streamers into the system. You'll have to net those out.

 

[RamPuppy]

hair algae grows because there are nutrients to fuel it.

You can take the following steps:

Manually remove what you can.
Figure out what is causing your nutrient load and correct the situation.
Water Changes
Run a Phosban Reactor
Start a refugium with a macro like cheamatophora that can out-compete the bad stuff.

 

[shan820]

take alook here... and do some searching. This topic gets beat to death often...

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=779353&perpage=5&pagenumber=1