Get rid of Hair Algae and other Nuisance Algae

[reefwars]

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Reefwars: From what I read there are a few strains of dino and some react really bad to high PH and some are not affected. I got rid of mine in 3 days gone for 4 months now, never saw it again. Honestly it is easy to treat that way, does not affect the other creatures in the aquarium if done slowly and a PH of 8.4 is not that drastic, but it was enough for me. You might want to tell your friend to try that and see if it work for him. I am 100% positive on the ID on mine because I have a microscope and use it to ID everything I can before treating. Mine looked like little grain of corn. Under the microscope, the cyano look very very much like a hair algae![/quote]


i think he has sold his tank now this was last year

i really need to invest in a microscope , i was never that good at biology but am finding alot of it very interesting now adays, i was always a fish person but since starting reeftanks i wish i had of paid better attention in school lol

and i agree that a different thread would probably confuse people and when someone has these problems they usually look in the algae problems catagory

i find all this so fasinating now its a shame i didnt when i was younger