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11-28-2007, 02:00 AM
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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. 
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120 G sps reef, looking to build bigger. 
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11-28-2007, 02:07 AM
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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?
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Always looking for the next best coral... 90g starphire cube/400mhRadium20k/2 XHO/2x27w UV/2x39w T5/ 3 Trulumen led strips
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11-28-2007, 02:08 AM
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btw any pics of your 120 sps reef reason I ask is I have one too!
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Always looking for the next best coral... 90g starphire cube/400mhRadium20k/2 XHO/2x27w UV/2x39w T5/ 3 Trulumen led strips
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11-29-2007, 05:25 AM
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hair algae
Have you tried a sea hare
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11-29-2007, 12:25 PM
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I have a coral beauty angel fish and I had a white tail pygmy angel fish that eat/ate it.
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11-29-2007, 01:05 PM
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What's your feeding regimen? How often do you perform water changes? And...how/with what are you skimming?
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~Drew 10G Nano * 10G Sump * Deltec MCE 600 Skimmer * JBL Viper 150w MH * Zeovit * Vortech MP40W Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. ~S. Ertz 
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11-29-2007, 01:30 PM
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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.
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120 G sps reef, looking to build bigger.
Last edited by steve fedyk; 11-29-2007 at 01:34 PM.
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11-29-2007, 01:53 PM
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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.
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#10
11-29-2007, 03:50 PM
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You can baste the patches of algae with hot RO/DI water. Works good on Bryopsis and bubble algae too.
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