I posted a few months ago with some truly horrifying pictures of an algae problem, and there has been dramatic improvement, but still I'm fighting it. I changed out my tds meter which had been faulty for a long time, and I was still getting about 12 tds out of brand new membranes and filters in my last ro/di unit. I changed to the BRS 5stage dual DI system and constantly produce 0tds water, coupled with algaefix marine there has been a serious reduction over the last two months, but still about half of it remains. Just looking for more options, thought about getting the probidio biodigest, and biooptim but don't really know much about these...any input will help, gotta resize a picture and Ill get it posted up here.
Still Fighting Green Hair Algae
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sorry for the crappy picture
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as you can see the bulk is very gone
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sorry for the crappy picture
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as you can see the bulk is very gone
seattleguy
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Buy a Tang. A really good one for all types of Algae including Bryopsis and bubble Algae is the Red Sea Sailfin Tang (Zebramosa Desjardini). One of those wouold clean up that Rock pile in about a week.
SnowManSnow
Member
big nuff for a tank or 2?
Flipper62
Premium Member
Also...what do you have for a CUC ( clean up crew ) ?
Emerald crabs, Hermit crabs will also eat hair algae. If you have them in there from the start, they should keep it clean. You also want some Turbo snails, Margarita snails, all kinda of snails...they will also eat Algae & keep the glass clean.
Nasserius snails will surf the sand & keep it clean
Emerald crabs, Hermit crabs will also eat hair algae. If you have them in there from the start, they should keep it clean. You also want some Turbo snails, Margarita snails, all kinda of snails...they will also eat Algae & keep the glass clean.
Nasserius snails will surf the sand & keep it clean
Romulox234
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lol it looks like ur clownfish decided to host some of it
In addition,
In addition,
All of the above will help, but every time you do a water change, you should do some serious manual removal to help your CUC and other solutions...
When I had serious HA issue in an overfed 120G tank, I hooked up my siphon hose to dump right back into the sump - then I put a filter sock on the end of the hose - I kept siphoning water out of the DT back into the sump for over 30 minutes - but in that time I was able to hand pick 90% of the HA out of the tank. The 14" filter sock was almost full of HA. The CUC and 15% water changes took care of the rest...
JME.
LL
In addition,
All of the above will help, but every time you do a water change, you should do some serious manual removal to help your CUC and other solutions...
When I had serious HA issue in an overfed 120G tank, I hooked up my siphon hose to dump right back into the sump - then I put a filter sock on the end of the hose - I kept siphoning water out of the DT back into the sump for over 30 minutes - but in that time I was able to hand pick 90% of the HA out of the tank. The 14" filter sock was almost full of HA. The CUC and 15% water changes took care of the rest...
JME.
LL
Mag is 1500 (salifert)
Algaefix Marine- The recent picture is after 5 weeks of algae fix it has helped alot (but is nearly gone
The only problem I have with manual removal is that hair algae is so attached to the rock that sometimes pulling it while its still green takes a piece of rock off with it.(the rock breaks easily)
Algaefix Marine- The recent picture is after 5 weeks of algae fix it has helped alot (but is nearly gone
The only problem I have with manual removal is that hair algae is so attached to the rock that sometimes pulling it while its still green takes a piece of rock off with it.(the rock breaks easily)
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I've been fighting algae for about 5 years! I use a phos-ban reactor, RODI, clean rock weekly, filter sock, and fuge with chaeto. plus also have lots of snails,crabs,lettuce nudis, and black urchin. my mag is 1320, phosphate 0. nothing is working. I have heard and read that the foxface rabbit fish is better than any other herbevore, even if the H A is still out of control. tangs are great once the H A is under control, I've had 4. I was thinking about some algae fix, glad to hear it worked. other than that try the sea hare (they'll mow it down) but they can release a toxic substance. rabbit fish is probably the way to go.
VacavilleFC3S
Active member
i used to run a phosban reactor but it was too much work, now i just buy chemipure elite, rinse it will and toss it in the return chamber of my sump, it's completely taken care of my GHA problem i was having, 1 bag can be used for a couple months
fishgeek12
New member
i overdosed on mag and it took care of my hair algae. I was even running phosban reactor before the mag overdose.
