hair algea
 

I'm having a problem with hair algea. I have a phosphate reactor and RO/DI water filter. Have changed all of the water filters and recharged the PO4 media.
Does anyone have any other ideas of how to deal with this problem.:question:

I have that problem on only 1 rock in my tank let it grow long enough to pull it off, it should come right off but again that's only on one rock if you have a tank full of it then that would be very time consuming... How long has your tank been set up?

btw any pics of your 120 sps reef reason I ask is I have one too!

hair algae
 

Have you tried a sea hare

sea hare, blue legged hermits, naso tang.

I have a coral beauty angel fish and I had a white tail pygmy angel fish that eat/ate it.

What's your feeding regimen? How often do you perform water changes? And...how/with what are you skimming?

My tank has been up and running for almost a year. I do 10G water change very two weeks, feed one cube of frozen food a day, in two halfs. I use bullet two skimmer in sump and 10G refugrium. I have a power blue, sailfine, potter angle and foxface. To eat the algea but they don't eat the hair aglea. The silver conch eats the aglea thats on the sand. I will try to post some pictures this weekend.

First of make sure you thaw and rinse the frozen food before feeding it. It contains a lot of phosphates and other junk you don't want in the tank.

Assuming you are not adding new phosphates (rinsing your food, feeding sparingly, and using good RO/DI water) it should be on the decline. Next find a few Mexican Turbo Snails. These things are eating machines but also buldozers so make sure your corals are glued in place. I threw 5 in my 120 and they eliminated my red hair in days, they even cleaned off the shells of the other snails that had green hair growing on them.

You can baste the patches of algae with hot RO/DI water. Works good on Bryopsis and bubble algae too.

I had lettuce nudibranches, and urchins work for me. If your running a calcium reactor with a media similar to the ARM brand you may be releasing phosphates into your system that way.

Not meaning to hijack the thread. Can you run a bag of phosban or similar in the back chambers and receive any benefit? Just curious have a bit of a GHA problem myself.

Thanks
Brad Fedick

In the back chambers of what? Maybe I missed something. But running it passively would have some benefit, sure...

Sorry Drew,
I'm running a 24 gallon nano cube with three chambers in back. Thanks for the info. Will give it a try next time I make an order.

I got a sea hair on the weekend and he just about eat him self to death.

The PO4 was coming from the frozzen food. I'm back to working dayshift instead of afternoon. I didn't know to rinse the food. I was putting one cube in a cup with salt water to thaw then feeding half in the morring and half before work. I was only feed frozzen every second day. The tank could handle that but not every day. One more learning experiment by trial and airer.:biggrin:
Thank for the input and helping me solve my problem.