hair algea

[Snappy]

sea hare, blue legged hermits, naso tang.

[fishoholic]

I have a coral beauty angel fish and I had a white tail pygmy angel fish that eat/ate it.

[Der_Iron_Chef]

What's your feeding regimen? How often do you perform water changes? And...how/with what are you skimming?

[steve fedyk]

My tank has been up and running for almost a year. I do 10G water change very two weeks, feed one cube of frozen food a day, in two halfs. I use bullet two skimmer in sump and 10G refugrium. I have a power blue, sailfine, potter angle and foxface. To eat the algea but they don't eat the hair aglea. The silver conch eats the aglea thats on the sand. I will try to post some pictures this weekend.

[Shipwreck]

First of make sure you thaw and rinse the frozen food before feeding it. It contains a lot of phosphates and other junk you don't want in the tank.

Assuming you are not adding new phosphates (rinsing your food, feeding sparingly, and using good RO/DI water) it should be on the decline. Next find a few Mexican Turbo Snails. These things are eating machines but also buldozers so make sure your corals are glued in place. I threw 5 in my 120 and they eliminated my red hair in days, they even cleaned off the shells of the other snails that had green hair growing on them.

[Reefer Rob]

You can baste the patches of algae with hot RO/DI water. Works good on Bryopsis and bubble algae too.

[michika]

I had lettuce nudibranches, and urchins work for me. If your running a calcium reactor with a media similar to the ARM brand you may be releasing phosphates into your system that way.