Hair Algea

Josh23 · #1 03-30-2008, 01:07 AM

I have a little hair algea growth starting to take place. The tank is only about a month old, is this normal to see in the cycle of a new tank. Should I look at getting a phosphate sponge? What have you used to battle this crap.

thanks
Josh

Drock169 · #2 03-30-2008, 01:16 AM

I would "cook" the rock if your just starting up the tank. Hair algae is a tough one to battle.

Josh23 · #3 03-30-2008, 01:54 AM

how do I cook rock? anyone else have any thoughts?

toxic111 · #4 03-30-2008, 03:04 AM

All I did in my tank (and I jsut went through this) is let it go as part of the cycle, after a couple of weeks, I just used an algae scraper and cleaned it off the glass. The clean up crew I added after the cycle took care of the rest of it.

bv_reefer · #5 03-31-2008, 03:09 AM

hair algae is as mentioned a tough one to battle, at the end it's a couple things combined that end up eliminating. when it started developing on one of my rocks, I pretty much just ended up manually removing as much as possible, reducing my photo period, stopped feeding corals for 2-3 weeks, cut back on feding fish, and of course kept up on reasonably adequate water changes.

good luck, it's an ugly algae to have to deal with, but heres a thread from a couple months back originally posted by michika, try to get as much as possible out of it. and don't let the gha win!

Josh23 · #6 03-31-2008, 10:56 PM

Did you say you had a link to a previous thread?