Green hair algae

[jamen89]

Tank is a 10 gallon nano been up about 5 weeks.I use only rodi water and have led lights. Its driving me crazy... Looks like I need hedge trimmers in there lol. I have only been using my lights about 5 hrs a day sense the out break. I only have a clown and 3 blue legs in there for now.

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[declanisadog]

What kind of clean up crew? A good cleanup crew goes a long way


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[declanisadog]

Oh...three blue legs....didn't see that. Definitely not sufficient. Need some snails. Also, manual removable as much as you can. How often are you changing water?


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[calhounreef]

I started getting some in my 10 gallon too so I added a turbo snail to my clean up crew and he's been going crazy on the stuff

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[jamen89]

Guess I need some turbos.I'm doing water changes once a week btw.

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[franciscosalazar]

jamen89;920755 wrote: Tank is a 10 gallon nano been up about 5 weeks.I use only rodi water and have led lights. Its driving me crazy... Looks like I need hedge trimmers in there lol. I have only been using my lights about 5 hrs a day sense the out break. I only have a clown and 3 blue legs in there for now.

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are your lights on 100% intensity for 5 hours?

 

[jamen89]

Yes my light is non dimable

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[franciscosalazar]

jamen89;920834 wrote: Yes my light is non dimable

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Can you raise your light higher away from the tank?

 

[jamen89]

Its on a goseneck so it is at its highest.

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[franciscosalazar]

you're going to have to lower the par in your tank by elevating the light somehow. Others can chime in on the nutritional needs of hair algae but my understanding is that hair algae doesn't need much food to grow but it will maximize it's nutrient uptake to match your light's intensity. If you cannot elevate the light off the tank then you absolutely must minimize your nitrates and phosphates. If you don't have coral I wouldn't run it longer than necessary during a feeding.

 

[tbub1221]

I'd pluck it off with tweezers or you can scrub it off with a tooth brush (new ofcoarse) get as much out as possible then sick some snails on it.
If n03 & p04 are in check it will get better.
Also It won't hurt the rock or coralline algae to brush it , it actually is healthy for the rock by opening the flow to deeper in the rock reaching more bacteria but you should not need to do this a whole lot , so if you are needing to scrub it once a week I'd say its nutrients driven .
Good luck getting it goen.

 

[jamen89]

Thanks guys I will try it all

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[jeffmuse]

Tbub1221;920859 wrote: I'd pluck it off with tweezers or you can scrub it off with a tooth brush (new ofcoarse) get as much out as possible then sick some snails on it.
If n03 & p04 are in check it will get better.
Also It won't hurt the rock or coralline algae to brush it , it actually is healthy for the rock by opening the flow to deeper in the rock reaching more bacteria but you should not need to do this a whole lot , so if you are needing to scrub it once a week I'd say its nutrients driven .
Good luck getting it goen.

You are right on... I recently had a hair algae outbreak and did a program similar to this. Algae is gone!

Get a toothbrush and scrub the rock. The algae will slide right off. Follow that up with a big water change (try to siphon as much of the algae as possible).

After manual removal, manage nitrages/ phosphates and add additional clean up crew (especially snails).