Maiden's Hair algae

by **lionlord3502** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 3:39 am

ok how the hell do i git ride of it. it is starting to destroy my tank and it need to go i got a neso tang and it dont look like he has any interest in it. please help and i keep lion fish so something thay wont eat

by **puffedupseagull** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 9:15 am

are you still copping it hard buddy with that algae. Mate maybe a last resort is to scrub in salt water and a scrubbing brush each individual rock, drastic and will have to re scape rocks but maybe only option left.
Have you got a fuge.
Try having it on with heaps of lights 24/7 and really reduce ur feeding to nearly nil for a week or to??????
worth a try
still prune while you fuge and no food but.

by **puffedupseagull** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 9:19 am

hey there is a post on here about a scrubber. read last post describing how it removed all there hair algae in weeks/
http://www.ratemyfishtank.com/phpbb/vie ... r=asc/s/15

by **newbie916** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 4:37 pm

I scrubbed my rocks about a month ago per puffs advice I believe. I transferred all of my livestock into a new tank setup and have been hair algae free for a month. I used a new toothbrush and scrubbed all 150 lbs of live rock. It took 14 hrs to complete the project.

by **somalia123** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 1:03 am

i am also suffering from a hair algae infestation and i have heard if you raise you magnesium to 1500 ppm and keep it there for about three weeks the hair algae with die and fall off. i think the reason i got hair algae in the first place was i had my lights on for to long, so you might want to look into that.

by **schigara** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 1:29 am

Somalia123,

Elevated magnesium has only worked on Bryopsis and even then, Kent Tech M has shown the best results.. Bryopsis looks like tiny feathers. From a distance, hair algae looks just like Bryopsis. Elevated magnesium has shown no effect on the average hair algae.

by **fihsboy** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 2:23 am

...........uhh sure............I understood that. :)

by **schigara** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 2:33 am

Sorry Fishboy,

I tried condensing a post that has run for about 2 years on reef central.

A lot of people confuse hair algae with bryopsis and assume that what works on bryopsis, also works on common hair algae. It doesn't.

Here's the original thread. http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showt ... id=1113109

by **fihsboy** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 2:40 am

AHHH, okay! Thank you sir. That clears it up for me. :) I appreciate it. You should be a professor, you confuse me more than my biology teacher. haha!

by **schigara** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 2:45 am

Heh. Your welcome. I like to teach the little bit I do know, but I am not a good teacher and I know this.

Maiden's Hair algae

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