Zoa Help

[Photosnowman]

I've noticed that my zoas have what looks like hair algae growing on the rock they're attached to. They haven't had any trouble until this. It seems to be growing pretty rapidly and I'm afraid if I don't take care of it soon it will get out of hand. It looks like the algae is keeping some of the zoas from opening up all the way. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[msman825]

pull it off . tweezers, knive what ever you can get it with. and dont drop the hair back in your tank

 

[hexedagain]

My Foxface made short work of hair algae. I only had a small outbreak, but he did away with it fast.
He also seems to pick at my zoas, but when he is done, over the next day or two the zoas seem more vibrant than before. Maybe he is cleaning them for me, I don't know. Maybe getting the hair algae before it really starts.

 

[tkeracer619]

I had a colony of zoas all of a sudden burst with bryopsis a month ago. Each week I pulled the colony out and pulled as much of the bryopsis off as I could.

Lucky for me I had a foxface in qt, after a month an half I put him the display. I have not seen algae in my tank since.

Not sure a foxface is a good choice for a 55g so you are probably going to have to just keep pulling the algae off untill you fix the source of the problem.