Help! Green Hair algea bloom

[albert_dao]

Originally Posted by OCDP

Albert, if you dont mind me asking... for a 20g tank, what size cleanup crew would you recommend? and consisting of which critters? Like I said, hair algae seems to be the biggest problem right now, but I still have cyano in the tank. Need to get a PH or something soon.

Any True Percs in?

You'r probably looking at no more then 15 animals using a mix of trochus and cerith snails. Trochus are awesome with the diatoms while cerith do a great job with some types of hair algae.

Keeping that in mind, I wouldn't add more then 5 snails at a time, giving them 1-2 weeks in between additions to observe how well they keep up with your algae.

No percs right now.. hah

Originally Posted by danny zubot

I haven't got access to a camera right now but if you have any in your tanks at Gold's I'll be able to identify it. Are you open tonight?

The store is open til 8 tonight but I'm not working (school).