Any advice on removing coral hair algae

[thebuildert]

So I have had this nano 10 gallon for 6 months now. But I am still having a bad case of hair algae. Anyone have a good solution?

 

[T-J]

The red looks like cyano. The green looks like algae.
I'm guessing you have a flow and nutrient issue.
Please post your tank parameters, as well as tank inhabitants, lighting, filtration and FTS pics.

 

[flyingscampi]

A hermit crab eats all my hair algae.

 

[WWC Verified Sponsor]

So I have had this nano 10 gallon for 6 months now. But I am still having a bad case of hair algae. Anyone have a good solution?

Hello,

Can you post what the tank parameters look like? also what kind of flow are you getting around the tank. You will want to use a turkey baster and gently use it to help get the algae of the corals. But we first need a overall of how everything is doing.


-Keith

 

[Jekyl]

Start daily dosing of live phyto.

 

[vetteguy53081]

This is not hair algae but rather Bryopsis. The prescence of roots and fern like foilage is giveaway. You will need to pull as much as you can by hand and then using either a dental pick or small crochet needle and pull the roots. As long as there are roots, this stuff will keep growing back.
Finish control by adding:
Pitho crabs
Astrea snails
Chiton snails

 

[thebuildert]

I have all currently living and doing well:
1 clownfish
1 clove colony
Multiple Zoa colonies
1 Goniopora
1 peppermint shrimp
1 rfa
2 mushrooms
2 hermits
2 trocus (hermit keep eating them)
1 astrea
1 Mexican turbo snail
2 baby snails that I don’t know
A baby feather duster
Brittle Star
Too many tiny sea stars (from live rock)
Some bristle worms
Xenia

parameters
Calcium: 420
Phosphate: 0 ppm
Nitrate: 0-5ppm
Salinity: .024-.025 specific gravity

 

[thebuildert]

I have all currently living and doing well:
1 clownfish
1 clove colony
Multiple Zoa colonies
1 Goniopora
1 peppermint shrimp
1 rfa
2 mushrooms
2 hermits
2 trocus (hermit keep eating them)
1 astrea
1 Mexican turbo snail
2 baby snails that I don’t know
A baby feather duster
Brittle Star
Too many tiny sea stars (from live rock)
Some bristle worms
Xenia

parameters
Calcium: 420
Phosphate: 0 ppm
Nitrate: 0-5ppm
Salinity: .024-.025 specific gravity

Do pinto crabs get big?

 

[vetteguy53081]

Do pinto crabs get big?

about size of quarter

 

[vetteguy53081]

I have all currently living and doing well:
1 clownfish
1 clove colony
Multiple Zoa colonies
1 Goniopora
1 peppermint shrimp
1 rfa
2 mushrooms
2 hermits
2 trocus (hermit keep eating them)
1 astrea
1 Mexican turbo snail
2 baby snails that I don’t know
A baby feather duster
Brittle Star
Too many tiny sea stars (from live rock)
Some bristle worms
Xenia

parameters
Calcium: 420
Phosphate: 0 ppm
Nitrate: 0-5ppm
Salinity: .024-.025 specific gravity

Carribean blue leg hermits will get into coral crevices safely. Astrea snails are also safe around polyps and coral crevices. Icrease your astrea population to about 6 total.
Pics under white lighting always helpful with assessment

 

[thebuildert]

 

[thebuildert]

Also a little off topic but is my rfa spawning right now?

 

[thebuildert]

Also a little off topic but is my rfa spawning right now?

 

[Bucs20fan]

Nope your rfa is pooping