I just noticed the aqua clear.Are you using the foam,or is it empty and just used for water flow?The foam may be the culprit,it will trap food and detritus causing higher nutrients.
Greg

I have the foam in right now. I'll take it out and see if that helps.

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Hi if your tank is checking out okyou might want to try this,what i did when i had a small problem was remove the lr like you did scrub it down with water from a water change,then rince with new made up water place back in the tank,then add a bunch of blue legg hermits and snails, go slow when putting the snails in the tank,this cleared up my problem and i havent had a speck on hair in four months

Watch your water quality and boost your clean-up crew. Add more snails and hermits. I also use a long-spined urchin and an emerald crab. They all have there merits and misgivings, you have to find what works for you. With the right balance of janitors the algae will disappear.

I had my tank TOTALLY covered in hair algea.. long stringy stuff.. looked like a forest instead of a reef tank..

I tried snails.. LOTS of snails.. turbo, margerita, astrea, couple trochus.. they found their patches that they ate.. and kept clean.. but didn't really make any progress..

hermit crabs.. blue leggeed hermits, zebra hermits.. even got an emerald crab.. all seemed to be eating at the buffet.. but no real progress..

Bought a yellow tang.. man do they eat alot.. but still.. not enuf.. got the lawnmower blenny.. he tore up more than he ate i think.. but he did eat.. hehe..

got a diadema urchin.. he did some good work too.. (man i have alot of herbivores)

overall.. even with all the critters in there.. i still had algea up to my armpits.. :)

Myself and lostmind took a pair of toothbrushes and a combiniation of scrubbing the smaller rocks oin a bucket and scrubbing the larger one IN the tank..

week later.. algea...

SO.. we went for round 2.. and scrubbed it AGAIN.. and THEN keeping the lights out except for about 2 hours a day for 2 weeks...

perfection.. and its been great ever since. (cept the battle with nasty dino's, also fixed by lowering the lighting cycle away from 12 hours to 6 on 18 off) :) i must have spent like 300+$ on snails at JL.. oi..

my tank was 90Gallon, red sea berlin skimmer, RO/DI, 2x400W MH 10,000K Ushios + 2x96W PC actinic. all the readings on the tests were exactly where they were supposed to be.. The lights were on 12 hours on/off whcih is i think what really contributed to my outbreak.. lowering the lighting cycle to stop the algea from growing back and let the critters get a good foothold I think was why it worked for me..

what bout a sea hare. they should do the trick

Try Seahare. They the best hair algae eater. How many depends on what size of tank you have. I guarantee you it will be gone in few days.

Yes but keep in mind that so will the sea hare if all the algae (FOOD) dissapears.
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This is so true....