hair algae

drunktank · 06/11/2006, 05:33 PM

got a real bad case of hair algae, any good products out there to combat it?

DaveG99 · 06/11/2006, 05:39 PM

I have it on a couple rocks also. Make sure your tank paerameters are good. You need to keep those nitrates and phosphates down. Have you tried to put some cheato in your tank? The cheato should eat up the nitrates and make the green hair compete for it.

bmrigs · 06/11/2006, 05:41 PM

aside from keeping the water parameters in check, top off with ro\di. Mexican turbo snails devour it like a lawn mower.

SECTER1 · 06/11/2006, 06:34 PM

Get a big clean up crew..

drunktank · 06/11/2006, 07:30 PM

cant use a clean up crew- i have triggers

i think my phosphates are way to high, any way to bring them down safely?

my nitrites and trates are well below detectable.... and my cheato seems to be doing fine, but the hair algae keeps growing.

Devildogg9745 · 06/12/2006, 11:32 AM

I have been having the same problem. I have started doing 10% water changes every couple of days. I have also began scrubing the rocks with no corals on them, in the old saltwater. The rocks with corals I manually pull while my wife syphens it out of the tank. It has been a long slow battle but I think (or at least hope) I am starting to win back my tank.

06/11/2006, 05:33 PM	#1
drunktank Registered Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: New Jersey Posts: 404	hair algae got a real bad case of hair algae, any good products out there to combat it?

06/11/2006, 05:39 PM	#2
DaveG99 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Forney Texas Posts: 1,597	I have it on a couple rocks also. Make sure your tank paerameters are good. You need to keep those nitrates and phosphates down. Have you tried to put some cheato in your tank? The cheato should eat up the nitrates and make the green hair compete for it.

06/11/2006, 05:41 PM	#3
bmrigs Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL Posts: 198	aside from keeping the water parameters in check, top off with ro\di. Mexican turbo snails devour it like a lawn mower.

06/11/2006, 06:34 PM	#4
SECTER1 Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Oceanside Ca Posts: 61	Get a big clean up crew..

06/11/2006, 07:30 PM	#5
drunktank Registered Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: New Jersey Posts: 404	cant use a clean up crew- i have triggers i think my phosphates are way to high, any way to bring them down safely? my nitrites and trates are well below detectable.... and my cheato seems to be doing fine, but the hair algae keeps growing.

06/12/2006, 11:32 AM	#6
Devildogg9745 Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Milwaukee,WI Posts: 107	I have been having the same problem. I have started doing 10% water changes every couple of days. I have also began scrubing the rocks with no corals on them, in the old saltwater. The rocks with corals I manually pull while my wife syphens it out of the tank. It has been a long slow battle but I think (or at least hope) I am starting to win back my tank.