Hair Algae

[stephenns]

I have some serious issues with Hair Algea.
I am only running the light 6.5 hours per day.
Feeding 2-3 times a week.
Ideas?
Is there a small fish that will eat Hair Algae?

Specs
16 Gallon Bowfront
1 Year Old
CPR Backback Skimmer
2 Powerheads
Percula Clown
Pygmy Angel
Zoos, Mushrooms, Leather, Hammer

 

[amaya]

whats your parameters

 

[drummereef]

Need to know the params first. Especially phosphates and nitrates. Do you use tap or RO/DI water?

 

[jun_celis]

If you use RO+Di(you should be okay). Then you should put a phosphate remover in a filter sock in the back of your tank. When I setup my nano, I used all my water from my 75 and rock from it. I also started having a little cyano on the rocks and so I put a sock with phosphate remover... cyano disappeared and never showed up. My nano has been up for about 2.5 months now and no algae whatsoever. My main tank is also algae free after I've incorporated a phosphate reactor about a year ago. Hair algae was my biggest problem at one point.

 

[badgers034]

I also have a 29 gallon and i had HA too. I dont use RO/DI water (yet) and I still got rid of it. My nitrates were 5 ppm when I had HA. The HA appeared abut a week after getting my CSS 65 (Im not saying that it had anything to do with the skimmer, just telling you that I have a skimmer). Now, How I got rid of it was first I went to the LFS and got 2 black mollies, acclimated them for about 6-7 hours on a slow drip. After about a week, my HA was disaperaing, but slowly. So, I went back to the LFS and got 5 astrea snails and an Emerald Crab, and a bag of carbon. The Hair algae still wasnt disappearing as fast as I wanted it to. So I covered my tank for about a week, so the HA wouldnt be able to photosynthesize. I peeked into my tank a few times and the Emerald crab was eating the HA alot, so I was happy. After a week of having the tank covered, I took the cover off and there was only a small patch of HA on my rock and it was small enough for my snails to eat. So I picked my snails off the walls and put all of them around the patch. Within a day it was all gone, and my tank has been HA free for about 2 weeks.

 

[birdy607]

lawnmower blennie would work nice