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Originally Posted by tlo
It may be leaching out of your rock. Did you get your rock from another reefer? It may have been soaking up all those phosphates from your previous feeding regieme and is now feeding the algae.
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And we have a winner!
I also did battle with hair algae, and ultimately the source was that phosphates were leaching from the rock and feeding the algae. The two options you have are a) let it cook in your tank, or b) remove and swap and either cook elsewhere, or dry it out.
I personally ended up letting it cook in the tank. I just did weekly maintenance of removing the hair algae and doing a regular waterchange shortly there after.
The best clean up crew I had, and still have, is a long-spine urchin. Great choice for a clean up crew, but they do grow very large.
Just so you have an idea of how bad it was in that tank:
