Hair algea
 

I seem to be having an outbreak of hair algea. It actually looks like moss growing on some of me live rock and corals. Can anyone recommend a method to get rid of it? Is there a cleaning procedure I should employ? Is there a fish that could accomplish the cleanup?

What might be causing my green hair algea? Tank chemistry seems to be alright, so I'm stumped.

Thanks

MoMan

cut the light duration down and don't feed the tank so much. It is just excess nutrients in the water column

get a sea hare . they work wonders

I've never heard of a sea hare. What is it?

Here's a great link you should read. Tells you everything you need to know.

http://saltyzoo.com/HairAlgae.html

Those lettuce nudibranchs work great too, or is that the same thing as a sea hare? Some people experience short life expectancys with them but they do great work while they are around.

lettuce nudi does not hold a candle to a sea hare . min removed 95% of my hair algea in one week

Different animal. I'm not suprised at the difference golden69_ca has observed either, given the size and body shape of the slug versus the hare (the lettuce sea slug has thin little ruffles, the hare is a fat bastard; it's a lettuce sea slug, not a lettuce nudibranch). :mrgreen:

I've got a fox face, damn thing eats everything that's an algae. He (she) ate all my calupera with in a couple days.. great fish.

Doug