F**** Hair Algea

[nudy6969]

how do i get rid of hair algea, its growing everywhere, even on my zoas!

[BIGJIM]

Either lower the phosphates or use some sort of plastic explosives. Man I hate even talking about it I have two more hours here (at work) and then I get to go home and see my HA.......RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH

[yote]

Originally Posted by nudy6969

how do i get rid of hair algea, its growing everywhere, even on my zoas!

Get your parameters under control.
Find out whats feeding the hair.Its phosphates and nitrates.
What are your test results?
What are you using to food?Flakes,pellets,or frozen?
What do you have in the tank?
How much live rock?
How long are you running your lights?
If you can answer those,then we can figure something out.

[cthegame]

How long has your tank been running? Hair algae is to be expected with new tanks...

To lower its growth, I would run phosphate remover, increase water changes (for a few weeks) to smaller changes twice per week and try to remove as much of the algae in your tank as you can. Also, try feeding the tank a little less and in time, the algae will slowdown. It takes a while. This has worked for me great.

Good luck.

[nudy6969]

my tank has been running since jan 18, i feed my fish a little mysis shrimp every day, my lights are on since 6 am to 6 pm, and then antics to 9pm, and then moonlight till 6am. i use D.I water, however i used tap at first ( used water conditioner). i have 8 lbs of live rock, bought 6 more but its curing.
My nitrates are at some where around 0-5. and i have a clean up crew of 2 hermits, 1 astrea, 2 nasarius 1 big one 1 medium sized one.
I do a 10% water change every week and i dont have a skimmer, cant find one that fits my tank. but i may get a sun pod and then will get a remora nano skimmer with it. i dont want any eveporation. (maybie il make a Plexiglass top). i dont monitor my phosphates.

[yote]

Cut back on your light and feedings for a while.It will help to run some kind of phosphate remover.I'd go ahead and pick up a bottle of Marine SAT and dose that.

[nudy6969]

wont my fish get hungry?

[Bifferwine]

Fish are always hungry.

[reefer2b]

I had some that started but my Astrea snails ate it. It's never come back either.

[hotimportknight]

I was going to say, get a lawnmower blenny and remove the source of the hair algae, either phosphates or nitrates. I added a handful of chaetomorpha to my sump to remove nitrates and phosphates and got a lawnmower blenny, my tank was BAD with hair algae and it was completely gone and the blenny was hungry after a week. Also your lights are on pretty long... I think I ran mine for 6 hours a day when I had algae problems, now im back to 12 hours a day and I'm algae free.
And back to my original though, your tank is too small for a lawnmower blenny... Just cut back the lights, cut back feeding, run a little thing of phosban in your filter area or some thing and it should clear up eventually, all new tanks go through this stage and it sucks!