Hair algae on cheato

[blacknife]

I have been fighting the hair algae in my 33 sump-less for a while and as part of that I modified an AC 300 and put some cheato in there. This last weekend I pulled out an old 15 gallon and made a basic little refugeium instead and pulled the AC. The cheato is now all covered in hair algae I assume this is not normal for cheato.

will the cheato in time outgrow the hair algae? or be slowly strangled out by it?

Anyone in Leduc have any extra macro trimmings I could throw in there?