justanotherfishhead
Lisa
Trying not to panic, it's not that bad, could be worse. I have little patches of it here and there, but I didn't notice until a few days ago that it had spread after I cleaned off that one rock that had it. (I bought a piece of live rock from my LFS that I wish I wouldn't have, it was the perfect shape and size but had hair algae and I didn't realize then how evil it is). My nitrate and phosphate tests read zero. I try to feed sparingly. I don't have room for a sump but I could try adding a HOB refugium. I think I have plenty of snails - a turbo, 12 nass, at least 50 dwarf ceriths, 9 florida ceriths, 7 nerites. Also a starry blenny and he eats a little. I have two powerheads in addition to the strong flow from my fluval 405. I tried to remove it with my fingers but it's so hard to grab, is there a special tool they sell for this?
At my next water change I will try to get it all scrubbed off the rocks. But one question for you guys - I have a few nice branching coral rocks that have little feather dusters and brittle stars on them, and I don't want to hurt them when I use a brush on the rocks, what can I do? Try to get the brittle stars off first so I don't hurt them, try to avoid the feather dusters? Here's a pic of the one I'm really worried about. You can see the hair algae in the crevices where the turbo can't get to. Just yesterday I moved the little snails from the glass and reassigned them to this rock (the glass is pretty clean).
At my next water change I will try to get it all scrubbed off the rocks. But one question for you guys - I have a few nice branching coral rocks that have little feather dusters and brittle stars on them, and I don't want to hurt them when I use a brush on the rocks, what can I do? Try to get the brittle stars off first so I don't hurt them, try to avoid the feather dusters? Here's a pic of the one I'm really worried about. You can see the hair algae in the crevices where the turbo can't get to. Just yesterday I moved the little snails from the glass and reassigned them to this rock (the glass is pretty clean).