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10-10-2003, 10:18 PM
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Hair Algae prob
I've got one LR that's pretty much 50% covered with hair algae. Most of the other rocks have minor cases (bubble algae, like 5 bubbles, and some other kind that looks like little sticks thus far, maybe caulerpra).
I've got several solutions I'm considering at the moment, please give me your opinions. 1) get a Lettuce Nudibranch 2) manual removal 3) dump that specific piece of LR (pretty small, little bigger than a fist) 4) get another kind of invertibrate/fish that'll eat it. I'm planning to manually remove the bubble algae and whatever the other one is this weekend. Won't mind trying a Lettuce Nudibranch cuz I'm in the midst of an algae bloom, so should have plenty for him to eat. 
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10-10-2003, 10:41 PM
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Why don't you take the problematic rock out and place it in a rubbermaid filled with salt water and a pump for a few days. All algae should be killed by then. As for the rest of the tank, turn the photoperiod down for a few weeks.
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Starting to put together a new tank for my new place.
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10-10-2003, 10:43 PM
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Sorry to hear about the hair algae problem. I fought the stuff for several months and finally won. My tank has been hair algae free for 3 months now.
The way that I succeeded was to remove half of the rock and scrub it with a toothbrush in a bucket of tank water to remove all of the algae that I could. I then quarantined this half of the rock for a couple of weeks in a separate tank with no light. Then I returned the clean rock to the tank while repeating the process on the second half of the rock. I have only a 33g tank with 25 lbs of LR and no coral at the time, I don't know if this is a viable option or not, but I thought that I would suggest it. It worked for me, but I am sure that there will be many differing opinions. I have since added some macroalgae to my system, and the hair algae has not returned (knock on wood). Patrick
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10-10-2003, 10:58 PM
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How long has your tank been set up?
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10-10-2003, 11:02 PM
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Re: Hair Algae prob
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1.Lettuce Nudi will only eat Bryopsis, is my understanding and when i had mine they would'nt even eat that. 2. Hard work, and you can't get all of it, Best method for me was to scrub every rock hard, and then i got luck with a yellow tang which eats the suff. 3. If its in your tank, dumping that piece of liverock will probably do nothing but spread to other ares of the tank 4. I've heard of many things that will eat the stuff, it's really hit or miss with them, I however got lucky, I didn't really hope my yellow tang would eat it, but it did. I just bought it because i been wanting a yellow tang for awhile
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