Will emeralds and tang attack this?

[dnguyen1]

I need a problem for my hairy algae I think it has to do with my lighting but I've about run it as low as I want to 90% intensity at 6 hours a day... I wonder if this has to do with my feeding my phosphates are at 0.04 so I'm happy with that don't want to go too clean

Parameters ammonia 0 nitrite 0 nitrate 3-5 phosphate 0.04 calcium 460 alk 8.5 magnesium at 1500+ I don't know why... I don't dose it...

The hairy algae didn't bloom it looks to just be growing slowly and I want to attack if ... this is after 3-4 months of growth thanks everybody

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[mcgyvr]

Unlikely..

 

[dnguyen1]

Unlikely..

Real talk..

I'm going to see if I can manually remove and then drop my light intensity down even further. Any other advice you can think of Mcgyvr?


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[mcgyvr]

Manual removal is your best bet..
In general once it gets that long nothing really touches it..

If you can pull the rock spot treatments of peroxide will work..
Then of course there is fluconazole that should work well against it..

 

[dnguyen1]

Oooh i see a reef hd product I'll try the manual removal first thank you mcgyvr


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[hijinks]

The best bet is an urchin or sea hare.

 

[Anemone]

Manual removal - a toothbrush works well against hair algae. Good luck.

Kevin

 

[m14socom]

Maybe use a nylon brush.

 

[Frogmanx82]

Fluconazole saved the hobby for me. My hair algae was much worse than that. One treatment last year and I'm still algae free.

If I had to pick one fish that can do serious damage to algae it would be the foxface. An algae eating machine.

 

[dnguyen1]

Fluconazole saved the hobby for me. My hair algae was much worse than that. One treatment last year and I'm still algae free.

If I had to pick one fish that can do serious damage to algae it would be the foxface. An algae eating machine.

Hey frogman are you talking about reef hd? That's the brand I see for fluconazol


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[sde1500]

Hey frogman are you talking about reef hd? That's the brand I see for fluconazol


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Flucanazole can be from many sources, the reef HD one is a marked up product made because the popularity of using it is catching on.

 

[kennytze]

I had same problem. I turned DT circulating pumps off. manually picked the algae off of rocks. Turn pumps on and net out the algae that slipped out of my fingers. scraped off all the algae left with toothbrush. Did this weekly three times, have not had a problem now for a year. I think the important part is the scrubbing with toothbrush. I have a Black Tang and Sailfin Tang in tank and they didn't touch it.

 

[PatW]

Low nutrients and removing with a brush works. I find that good grazers are needed to do the last bit of clean up. I have conchs, trochus, turbos and tangs.

 

[Daddi0]

Sea Hare