Hair algae!!

[Reefplumber13]

How and what is the best way to get rid of it?

 

[johniii]

Gfo

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[Reefplumber13]

I have 3 turbos in a 20long is that not enough? Lol where can I run the gfo? I don't have a sump I'm running a hob filter

 

[ringo®]

Let's see a pic of what you're working with.

 

[Reefplumber13]

alt="" />thos is the best I have on my phone it's all over they frags on the frag rack and the heater...

 

[Reefplumber13]

barry_keith;914411 wrote: Bagged in your HOB is probably going to be your best bet, unless you know someone who will loan you a media reactor

Edit: Three turbos should do it, are they large? They generally don't go after long pieces of HA, that's where the manual removal comes into play.

Yes there about the size of a ping pong ball

 

[ringo®]

Give the ends a good look when you go home and make sure it doesn't look like this
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[mikesmith34]

Ringo®;914420 wrote: Give the ends a good look when you go home and make sure it doesn't look like this

What is that Ringo??

 

[ringo®]

Bryopsis. Gets misdiagnosed as hair algae alot of times. Way bigger pain than H.A.

 

[Reefplumber13]

I'm 100% sure it's ha

 

[mikesmith34]

That's what I thought but I wasn't sure. Not familiar with it but have read about it on here. Sounds like a rpita

 

[Reefplumber13]

I'm about to do a tank swap so I don't want to move it with the tok and frags if I can

 

[heathlindner25]

H202

 

[jdavid]

heathlindner25;914528 wrote: H202

looks like it's not an isolated issue, too much for h2o2

I'm curious what you have/are doing for nutrient reduction.

 

[johniii]

He is slacking that's what. My bad Jeremy I had to

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[sn4k33y3z]

I had a fair amount and 4 turbos, phosguard, lower light cycle and water changes did the trick for me! Thanks to Heaths help!

 

[johniii]

Sn4k33y3z;914532 wrote: I had a fair amount and 4 turbos, phosguard, lower light cycle and water changes did the trick for me! Thanks to Heaths help!

This.

Also do you have a skimmer?

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[sn4k33y3z]

Yes! That too LOL

 

[declanisadog]

Yes to all. I'm battling a bit myself right now. Added a few Astraeas and started running gfo a couple days ago. Starting to clear up already. Only prob is I moved my skimmer and it's putting out some serious micro bubbles.

 

[jeffmuse]

Sn4k33y3z;914532 wrote: I had a fair amount and 4 turbos, phosguard, lower light cycle and water changes did the trick for me! Thanks to Heaths help!

+! I just recently had a terrible out break of hair algae after my tank's cycle and here's what I did:

1) Major water changes - 30% change two weeks in a row
2) Clean up crew - I purchased additional turbo snails, blue legged hermits, and assortment of other snails
3) Phosguard - I changed this out every 4 days in order to REALLY drop the nitrates in the system
4) Added a Sea Hare - This thing destroys hair algae
5) Lowered nitrates - reduced feeding, wet skimming, added macro algae to the fuge, ect