How to beat Hair algae

[Zura]

my water paraeters are nitrate 3 po4 0.04.

I've been dosing nopox for last 2 weeks, however this algae keeps growing just on those two rocks.

lighting in 8 hours per day...


I can't physically remove algae from those two rocks, because both of them are kind of base rocks....

any ideas how to beat it?

 

[pyithar]

try algae turf scrubber. brush the algae off during water changes and add a herbivore.

 

[AZRippster]

+1 on ATS, it did the trick for me, and very quickly.

 

[gmcpickup66]

I've been wondering this too. I keep getting hair algae and brown algae.

 

[gmcpickup66]

What kind of ATS do you use

 

[pyithar]

mine is a diy waterfall type scrubber. i feed water to fall over the plastic canvas using a pump and the canvas are lit by 45 watt cfl bulbs.

 

[slgcmg]

Nopox is best for removing nitrates, it does not remove phosphates as fast. I think because it takes the nitrates to zero and some nitrate is needed to remove phosphates.

Try running some BRS phosphate remove in addition to dosing Nopox.

 

[travis9791]

my yellow tang made short work of all my hair algae.

 

[fltekdiver]

I removed my rocks and dipped them in peroxide per the advise I received here as well

I dipped them in peroxide, then dipped them in RO water for 30 seconds, put them right back in the tank, and my rocks are algae free now. MY hair algae was 2" long on my rocks

Now the rocks are clean, perfect, but the alage is starting to grow in my sand all over

I just started running GFO a few days ago

 

[Zura]

I've been using nopox for last 2-3 weeks. No3 went from 5 to 0 yesterday (red sea test kit), and po4 is now at 0.05 accrding to hanna checker.

I know that I need to keep po4 between 0.02-04... but I think that even 0.05 is not bad at all...hopefully hair algae will disapiar pretty soon

 

[scooter31707]

IME, I had a lot during my cycle, using dry rock. I just ran GFO in a reactor and also Foxface and Lawnmower Blenny are great help also.

 

[fltekdiver]

Thanks, yes I started a few tanks up with dry rock. They leached PO4 for a few months, I did the same thing back then

Maybe I'll grab a fox face, yellow tang, and do allot of water changes along with the GFO

 

[fltekdiver]

Nopox I've heard of, never ran it, isn't it similar to vodka dosing?

I'll have to read up on that, thanks for the info

 

[slgcmg]

it's similar, a little more pricier but an easier start up process

 

[fltekdiver]

Thanks, I actually just ordered it from Amazon,. looked like it got excellent reviews. From what I've read, it takes 2-4 weeks to control the Po4

I just did a 30% water change, and cleaned all the algae out I could off the power heads, etc

I did vacuum the sand, but the algae is bound to the sand, it didn't pull it out

I figured with the Nopox and 4-5 good water changes, I should see it gone in a few weeks

Can I run the GFO still with it?

 

[nuttyd]

I had luck with Algaefix marine. Once it was gone, I added a refugium to keep it away. Only corals affected were xenias.

 

[solidcore]

Ro water, and it will eventually run its course

 

[CHSUB]

can't beat it, use it!!!!

here is my fug

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here is my DT, no algae!!!

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[MJT82]

I've had good luck with using good quality water for water changes, feeding judiciously, manually removing it during WC's, and blowing off the rocks with a turkey baster. Good luck!!