Hair algea
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I trust no animal with hair algae except a toothbrush siphonfish. None of the others have ever worked for me.
I believe that if you use a toothbrush your going to make the problem worse with tons of extra HA particles floating around and reattaching themselfs. Start with checking the age on your bulbs and parameters. Maybe slow down on feeding to every other day. I have been fighting this battle and just now am starting to win. With different ways of controlling my nutreints in my tank so my nitrates and phos stay as low as possible. I also started dosing some extra mag and raising it above the normal ranges has also helped. Good luck.
Tooth brush works great. You just zip tie a tooth brush to a long hose . Next siphonre water into 5 gallon buckets through a filter sock or panty hose on the end of the siphon hose. Scrub and siphon at the same time. Once bucket is full dump aand redo. I tried this I liked the filter sock better . When I was done I flipped the filter sock inside out threw it in the washer with bleach.
And to actually add to the OP's question...sometime turbo snails will munch on HA if it's not too long. But yellow tang rarely touches the stuff. My blue tang in my 95 gallon does but not really enough to put a serious dent in it.
And there maybe a couple of chemical options depending on the exact breed of HA. But that should really be a last resort. And also keep in mind you still have to fix the root cause if you go chemical.
And there maybe a couple of chemical options depending on the exact breed of HA. But that should really be a last resort. And also keep in mind you still have to fix the root cause if you go chemical.
