Hair Algae Is All Gone!

[Hiker4twenty]

Well, after about 2 months + of fighting hair algae its finally all gone as of this morning. It was a hard fought battle, but that scummy stuff lost this time. I had to pull a lot of it out, increase my cuc, added an algae blenny, increase the volume of water changes, cut my feedings down by 33% and cut my lighting down by 50%. I'm slowly going to start increasing my lighting back to 8hpd.

It was very frustrating and I felt like giving up on the hobby, but it was well worth the effort and aggrivation. It feels great to have a clean looking tank again.

 

[yote]

Gotta love it when you win the algae war.:D
Congratulations.How about a FTS to celebrate?

 

[d2mini]

Congrats! :D

I fought mine in my old tank for like 6 months. :grumble:

 

[Smitty]

Congratulations...I'm happy to hear that you have it under control now.

 

[Leslee]

Congrats on getting it all under control!

 

[U4BOYZ]

I bet that feels good. Good for you for not giving up!

 

[Hiker4twenty]

Thanks everyone! I took some shots last night, but forgot to bring my camera with me to upload this morning. I'll get an updated FTS up soon.

 

[coolhandgoose]

Good to hear a happy ending!!

 

[ccCapt]

A little patience and hard work always pays off. WTG! :)

 

[andysgirl8800]

I know exactly how you feel!! Congrats on winning. It will start looking better and better as the coraline starts to grow back.

 

[Hiker4twenty]

Here's an updated FTS from last night.

FTS on 4/18/10.

 

[ccCapt]

Looks great!
I'll trade you a frag of those purple zoas on the bottom left for a frag of this. ;)
http://www.centercup.net/images/125build/top-b-millie_4-10.jpg

Oh yeah, and take off the flow restrictors on your Koralias. :)

 

[Hiker4twenty]

Looks great!
I'll trade you a frag of those purple zoas on the bottom left for a frag of this. ;)
http://www.centercup.net/images/125build/top-b-millie_4-10.jpg

Oh yeah, and take off the flow restrictors on your Koralias. :)

I'll trade you. Here's a closer pic of them just to be sure you still want them.

 

[Hiker4twenty]

Hopefully I'll have better luck with milli's this time around.

 

[Bifferwine]

Wow those duncans are incredible! I really want to replace the ones I lost in my tank crash. I want them to look like yours!

 

[Hiker4twenty]

Wow those duncans are incredible! I really want to replace the ones I lost in my tank crash. I want them to look like yours!

Thanks Sarah! They love my tank I guess. It's because they get to eat good, I think? I started off with 3 heads (2 were abou the size of a nickle and 1 was the size of the eraser on a pencil). Since then they have exploaded and now have 18 heads at last count. If they ever decided to start growing more skeleton so I can frag maybe we can do a frag trade?