long green hair algea and lotts of it.....

[reddragon]

so i got back from Mexico yesterday and had a buddy looking after the tank for a couple of weeks.good place to tell you he has absuloutly no experience with a fish tank, but alls he had to do was water top ups cause i was letting the tank cycle and there was nothin in the tank. so i thought no problem.
when i got back there was 8 inch long green hair algea all over the back wall.when i was in mexico i was chattin with the tank babysitter on the computer and he said everything is good, " there is quite a bit of seaweed growing,but its not bad"(ha ha sea weed) so i was thinking a little bit not a whole forest.
i bought a scrapper tonight and scrapped it all off. i tried to catch most of it but it was impossible to get all teh little bits. i made a net strainer and waved it around the tank for half an hour trying to get it all.
Any thing else i can do to prevent it to come back?

[TheKid]

sea hair to clean up and control?

[Bloodasp]

if nothing is still in it keep the lights off for a few days.

[naesco]

Originally Posted by Bloodasp

if nothing is still in it keep the lights off for a few days.

No light, no algae. That is the way to go.

lights off for 2 weeks or salaris blennie they eat the stuff like a lawn mower hense the common name lawnmower bleenie. Once the roots are layed down there is no getting away from it but lights out for 2 weeks will likely kill roots. I'd then get a salaris blennie after you may need to put a clip of Norri in the tank but mine eats frozen and flake so I'm good. My bared gobies eat frozen like its going out of style they will now eat flake also just to let you know everything adapts at different rates.

Bill

[BlueWorldAquatic]

http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/sho...threadid=62346

Unfortunately, Lawnmower Blennies are touch and go, they also hate to chew on long HA. I have actually had experience with a Brown Bar Goby (Dragon Goby), where I saw it take a mouthfull of HA and rip it off the rock, but that doesn't get rid of the roots unfortunately.

Ken - BWA

[MMAX]

New, cycling tanks and hair algae go hand in hand. Nothing to really worry about IMOP. Get a clean-up crew together and let them go at it.

[banditpowdercoat]

Originally Posted by bvlester

lights off for 2 weeks or salaris blennie they eat the stuff like a lawn mower hense the common name lawnmower bleenie. Once the roots are layed down there is no getting away from it but lights out for 2 weeks will likely kill roots. I'd then get a salaris blennie after you may need to put a clip of Norri in the tank but mine eats frozen and flake so I'm good. My bared gobies eat frozen like its going out of style they will now eat flake also just to let you know everything adapts at different rates.

Bill

Lawnmower Blennies eat Film algae more than hair algae. I have been battling HA for quite some time now, My LMB doesn't even touch the stuff. He does, however go to town on the film algae on the glass. He loves that so much that he royally gets Pi$$ed off when I bring out the Mag float to clean the glass. he attacks the Mag float like it's a robber. which, I guess it kinda is.

[BlueWorldAquatic]

Originally Posted by banditpowdercoat

Lawnmower Blennies eat Film algae more than hair algae. I have been battling HA for quite some time now, My LMB doesn't even touch the stuff. He does, however go to town on the film algae on the glass. He loves that so much that he royally gets Pi$$ed off when I bring out the Mag float to clean the glass. he attacks the Mag float like it's a robber. which, I guess it kinda is.

Trim your HA, I bet he'll go after it. For some reason they don't like it more than 1/2 cm long.

Ken

[banditpowdercoat]

I've tried, he just don't like it I guess