hello,
neede some help with algae.Bought yellow tang and he doesnt seem to eat it,Looking for something that will consume before it gets out of control.Any help or suggestions will be appreciated
hair algae in reef tank
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fight it with ro/di water. It is easier to stop it at the source. Other than that I'm not too sure. I had a major problem with it before i had the ro/di. I had mexican turbos, regular turbos, blue leg hermits, red leg hermits, sally light foot, emerald crabs.. Other than that lawnmower blennies are kind of good at it. I never had any luck with yellow tangs eating hair algae. Now on the other hand my purple tang eats it if any pops up.
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All i can say is good luck. I have had no success with any of these.
Snails
Hermits
Lawnmower Blenny (starved as he would not touch it)
urchins
Foxface
emerald crabs
changed lighting
decreased lighting
major water changes
So i have no clue. Best thing to remove it was by hand as the critters did not do jack but cost alot of money then die. I would look very closely at the TDS of your source water and the cause of the hair algea first. Alot of people will tell you macro algea / refugium to fix the problem but in my 75 gallon I had a huge sump/refugium and with alot of macro algea and my hair algea started 5 years after the tank was setup. When it get hold of your tank it is hard to get rid of. Seriously if it has not taken a large hold of your tank start pulling it out by hand and try to get it close to the rock with some forceps and pray it does not spread fast. I am recently getting over a Cyano battle caused by my sediment cartridge on my RO being wasted so that is why I am saying to check your source water for anything that could cause algea.
Snails
Hermits
Lawnmower Blenny (starved as he would not touch it)
urchins
Foxface
emerald crabs
changed lighting
decreased lighting
major water changes
So i have no clue. Best thing to remove it was by hand as the critters did not do jack but cost alot of money then die. I would look very closely at the TDS of your source water and the cause of the hair algea first. Alot of people will tell you macro algea / refugium to fix the problem but in my 75 gallon I had a huge sump/refugium and with alot of macro algea and my hair algea started 5 years after the tank was setup. When it get hold of your tank it is hard to get rid of. Seriously if it has not taken a large hold of your tank start pulling it out by hand and try to get it close to the rock with some forceps and pray it does not spread fast. I am recently getting over a Cyano battle caused by my sediment cartridge on my RO being wasted so that is why I am saying to check your source water for anything that could cause algea.
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