Solution to hair algae found!!!

[fish clown]

Well I had a few aptasia in my fuge and they kept spreading and so someone told be about kalkwasser mixed with water and you blast them with the mix. Well they are all gone now and I've had some hair algae in one spot and so I thought if it works that well on aptasia then why not hair algae. I sprayed the area up close with a syringe and the next day a good half of it was gone. I think the only reason it didnt get it all was because the flow blew some of it away.

 

[capt85]

Kalk willl kill just about anything. Heck coat me in kalk and I wouldn't make it.

 

[keithhays]

Kalk willl kill just about anything. Heck coat me in kalk and I wouldn't make it.

+1 PH 12 will do that to you.

 

[usmc121581]

I use a mall paste to remove a stringy hard red algea that has appeared on my overflows. Bu I only do a little bit at a time, because of the killing effect I the high PH I almost killed off a huge frogspawn colony.

 

[Bruno3047]

Or you could just use Algae-fix Marine. Won't ever do another tank without it.

 

[barjam]

Or you could just use Algae-fix Marine. Won't ever do another tank without it.

It didn't work on hair algae for me and killed my yellow tang. It did however kill my bubble algae.

 

[fish clown]

Well all the visible hair algae in my tank is gone now!!!! What worked best for me is to make the kalkwasser/ water mix so that is close to a paste and it will stick to the hair algae like glue and it will deffenently do the job. It also works better when the flow is lower so it dosnt blow away the kalwassee with the current.

 

[Buzz1329]

It didn't work on hair algae for me and killed my yellow tang. It did however kill my bubble algae.

Interesting. How did you dose the Algae-fix Marine to kill the bubble algae (may it rot in hell).

 

[barjam]

Interesting. How did you dose the Algae-fix Marine to kill the bubble algae (may it rot in hell).

Just dosed it over 2+ months. I did not have it bad to start with. I wouldn't recommend this due to the collateral damage.

 

[Bruno3047]

Interesting. How did you dose the Algae-fix Marine to kill the bubble algae (may it rot in hell).

Check out this thread:

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1595003

 

[Michigan Mike]

Hydrogen peroxide solution.... Algae be gone.

 

[that Fish Guy]

Hydrogen peroxide solution.... Algae be gone.

I have a much much better solution than all of the others mentioned.

Tangs.... Hair Algae be gone.

 

[fish clown]

I have a much much better solution than all of the others mentioned.

Tangs.... Hair Algae be gone.

Man I love tangs but I only have 75 so lonely a kole t g can fit in it comfortably.
:sad2:

 

[Mr. Demeanor]

Hydrogen peroxide solution.... Algae be gone.

This. I got a yellow tang but I had so much HA and it was so long that the tang wasn't interested.
Hit as much as I could with peroxide. It was dead in a couple days and the tang went after the scraps. I went from a major HA problem in a 125 to ZERO HA in about 2 weeks.

 

[thebanker]

Hydrogen peroxide solution.... Algae be gone.

That is by far the most effective way to spot treat rocks that have chronic algae problems. As long as you treat the rock externally, and rinse the H2O2 off completely, it won't post much of a threat to your tank's chemistry.

Also, for some reason it makes the algae more appetizing to snails, as if it were cooked to their liking. Just my personal experience.

 

[Michigan Mike]

I have small tanks so tangs aren't an option unfortunately. So its better in my circumstance.
I'm not one to cram fish that shouldn't be in small tanks just because.