Hair Alge Be Gone!

[DMBillies]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14242591#post14242591 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by grapenutz
You could try a blue and gold rabbit fish, or scribbled rabbit fish, or any of the fox faces, they all love green hair algea. Just not a orange or blue spot rabbit fish, they will most likely pick at corals. As mentioned above, sally lightfoots are great and sometimes when you take snails off the glass, and put them on a patch of algea, they go to town. Hope this helps

It's actually funny because I received this same advice before on solving an outbreak and I had a lawnmower and a gold spotted rabbit starve in a 90 gallon full of it.

Tons of blue legs made a short-term dent, but nothing would seem to mow down the major spots.

I wish I could tell you an easy solution, but frankly I don't have one... hair algae has honestly made me want to quite this hobby more than one time... and I honestly hardly ever feed my tanks because I'm constantly afraid of algae issues.

 

[undertcontrolj]

well i am going to say it again 1 sally light foot eat all in my 12 gallon an 30 gallon. Never had a problem again.

 

[DMBillies]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14225216#post14225216 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by aquaman67
Raising your magnesium level to 1600 ppm with kent tech m seems to work too. I bought a small bottle to try it and mine all died. I just ordered a gallon jug to keep my magnesium level up.

Other magnesium brands don't seem to work. Only kent tech m. There are articles about it in the chemistry forum. Not sure why only kent works and at this point don't care...

I've read quite a bit on this actually...

Scientifically speaking, high magnesium should slow photosynthesis and hopefully slow hair algae down a little based solely on the photosynthesis reaction.

That said, Kent seems to be the magic bullet in terms of keeping Mg high, so I'm guessing that it has some type of trace element in it that most other Mg supplements don't that is increasing effectiveness. If I were a big corporation and heard about this, I would be pouring money into trying to figure out what the difference is.

 

[gmneil]

rasing the mag with the kent tech m did the trick for me