New tank, CUC ready. Very minor green hair algae

[freddy]

I use boiling water in a syringe,just squirt the water at the base of the algae,it will kill it,works great for me.

[no_bs]

Seahares have worked for us. But you must pass it on after problem solved or it will starve to death. I heard j&l will give money or credit when brought back.

[Albertan22]

If there's nothing in the tank, I'd add the snails and keep your lights off. I kept the lights off in my tank for over two months while it cycled and didn't have significant algae problems, though I was running phosban in a reactor. I didn't turn on the lights until I added my first coral.

[Myka]

I would choose Astrea and Trochus snails over Turbos. Turbos are bulldozers.

[SmallFry]

Hi,

I had three turbos in my tank when I had a really (really) bad hair algae problem, and I can tell you they eat a LOT.. If you don't have that much they'll probably get through it pretty fast...

I have no corals so the bulldozing wasn't a problem for me... My turbos died a while back but I'll get more when I get the chance, but probably only one or two this time...

Rob.

[ScubaSteve]

I went with a Strawberry Top Snail to take care of that stuff for me. He's huge, eats like a pig, is cool to look at and doesn't rearrange the tank like a Turbo. He's my favourite!

[DCDN]

Ive had good luck with my Astrea snails, they cleared up most of the hair algea i have. Just some left on one rock the rest was cleared up fast.