hair algae

[X-Treme]

Hmmm. All seems ok, but I wonder when the last time superstore cleaned their system, changed filters, etc.......

Maybe try getting water from somewhere else for a while? Just a thought.

[tgoeujon]

at some point , hopefully soon i want to set up a water system of my own

[slakker]

new sand and maybe rock? Even though using old water may cause a 'new tank' syndrome. So if you get a sea hair, it'll control it and when your tank settles, you can give it away. The hairy sea hares do a great job.

But if it's not 'new tank', then u gotta figure out what's causing the HA.

[tgoeujon]

the rock is all old i just thought about the lighting change. i went from pc with t5s to 150 mh. would that do it. same photo period different penetration?

[slakker]

Me personally think the new sand, even with old water and rock is basically a "new setup". So the system hasn't reached equilibrium yet, ie; nitrogen cycle not in balanced yet with the bacteria that's already in the rock, also not yet in the sand and not in the balanced concentrations (how's that for a run on sentence) . So while it's reaching equilibrium, any excess extra nutrient will be feeding the hair algae. The increased MH lights also is a variable that's helping enable photosynthesis in the algae to take up the nutrients. Decreasing photo period will help...

It'll slowly come back to balance, but it doesn't hurt to get a Sea Hare to keep the growth down while everything is coming into balance.

[tgoeujon]

picked up one of the mini sea hares on jls site, ill let you all know how it works. i also went with a lettuce nudibranch, figured it was worth a try as well

[slakker]

Cool... do they ship via Greyhound to Clinton? My wife's uncle lives in Lac la Hache and he was really interested in setting up a tank after seeing ours...