Hair Algae

reptilemanmark

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My tank is a 144 Half Circle Oceanic. It`s been up and running for about eight months. About the third month into I started getting patches of green grass clumps. They were getting every where. I was told by some people to add more snails and hermits. They could not even put a dent in it. Local pet shop told me I would probly need to get the phosphates down via a phosban reactor. I installed one and did slow it down a little but it was still spreading. The same owner of the store told me I would probly have to take down tank and reclean all the live rock?:confused:
That to me was not a good option! I tried some different fish. I was at an other local shop and they had a Bali Monster for sale. I was told that these are great algae eaters so for $18 it was worth a shot! Within a week most of the Algae was gone an other week everything completely gone! Now I feed him a algae sheat every couple of days. :D
 
Re: Hair Algae

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11081188#post11081188 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by reptilemanmark
My tank is a 144 Half Circle Oceanic. It`s been up and running for about eight months. About the third month into I started getting patches of green grass clumps. They were getting every where. I was told by some people to add more snails and hermits. They could not even put a dent in it. Local pet shop told me I would probly need to get the phosphates down via a phosban reactor. I installed one and did slow it down a little but it was still spreading. The same owner of the store told me I would probly have to take down tank and reclean all the live rock?:confused:
That to me was not a good option! I tried some different fish. I was at an other local shop and they had a Bali Monster for sale. I was told that these are great algae eaters so for $18 it was worth a shot! Within a week most of the Algae was gone an other week everything completely gone! Now I feed him a algae sheat every couple of days. :D

Some people have contacted me about the name I posted?
The real name is Blunt-End Sea Hare (dolabella auricularia)
This thing eats the hair algae that everything else turned it`s nose up to. One of these will clean better then 100 Crabs & snails!
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11094923#post11094923 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Frick-n-Frags
do you have a pic of it for us?

Here`s the picture!
154858sea_hare_blunt-end.jpg
 
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