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Old 03-02-2005, 10:16 PM
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Hi All,
Just a Quick Question...

I bought some new rock (about 50lbs of tonga) from a local guy getting out of the hobby, and there is quite alot of "green flowy algea" on it..
Should I:
A: remove it now
B: leave it until the end of the cycle
OR
C: leave it because my future tang might want to eat it?
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Old 03-02-2005, 10:25 PM
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It's hair algae, scrub off as much as you can. In the end, you may be able to get a couple turbo snails to finish it off.
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Old 03-02-2005, 10:26 PM
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It's hair algae, scrub off as much as you can. In the end, you may be able to get a couple turbo snails to finish it off.
Great, thanks Emily I'm sure my hunny will be excited when I tell him what we are doing tonight...lol
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Old 03-04-2005, 01:02 PM
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just a update I did that to, when i had my 280 gal starting up i bought some rock from a guy around 60 lbs and put it straight in to the tank. Guess what happened i got a huge mess of hair algae thur out the tank along with bubble algae. it went all over the tank waht a mess...

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Old 03-04-2005, 04:02 PM
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get a sea hair.. they guys freak out for hair algae, cleaned mine out in 24 hours, i have to feed him nori now.
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Old 03-04-2005, 09:03 PM
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really i didnt know that the Nori is working Willow..


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he munches on it, but defiantly like hair algae better.
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I've also found that those extra large turbon snails (what's written on the tank) @ LFS d/t work really well on my hair algae problem. Bit of a bulldozer though.
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get a sea hair.. they guys freak out for hair algae, cleaned mine out in 24 hours, i have to feed him nori now.

Whats a "sea hair" Willow?
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they are like snails without shells, very large and they eat a lot of hair algae.

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