Hair Algae Eaters

[tang daddy]

Fishes will eat algae well when starved but go for fish food first, they get lazy over time, snails do well but may not clean hair algae totally clean. As Kelly said manual removal is best. But if you have tons of algae then the best fishes and snails can't help you.

I would try to figure out what is out of balance, most times when algae grows it's because of a problem, over feeding, not enough skimming, rock leaching phosphates, paramaters out of whack, old light bulbs....

The list goes on. Bio pellets will reduce nitrates and abit of phosphates but I wouldn't rely on them solely for knocking down phosphates. You should use something like rowaphos or gfo to strip the phosphates out.

My alk dropped a week ago and caused some of my coraline to melt, getting brown fuzzy algae all over the coraline, I've since rectified the problem however the algae is still there. Manual removal has worked best. I also changed my sump light to a higher K led and that caused some nice algae to melt, which leached back into my tank.

Whatever you do to fix the problem take your time. Dropping phosphates fast can have a negative reaction to sps and Lps even softies so make sure you go slow!