Green Hair Algae Questions?

[Ryde]

Alright. I've been having algae problems for a bit now. Recently or (yesterday) I noticed very small patches of green hair algae on every live rock. I have 5 ceirth snails. They seem to be eating it. But I would like to know before it get out of hand if I should deal with it now and how. Or if it's not a problem and the snails with deal with it in no time. (As of right now it seems like I didn't get rid of the what looks to be ditom algae.. and will fight that again )

 

[Peace River]

There are a lot of GHA threads here on R2R that you may find helpful. One thing to test (if you haven't already) is your phosphate level. Good luck!

 

[Ryde]

Yes I have tested phosphate it's 0. But thanks I'll keep looking!

 

[ZoWhat]

15yrs in the hobby. The only real solution to beating GHA is pulling effected LR and scrubbing the GHA off with a stiff nylon brush (one you'd find in the hardware isle, looks like a toothbrush/wire brush but stiff nylon).... then following up with misting Hydrogen peroxide thru a squirt bottle on that area before reaquascaping the pulled rock. After that, quit quit quit feeding the fish so dang much.

 

[Ryde]

15yrs in the hobby. The only real solution to beating GHA is pulling effected LR and scrubbing the GHA off with a stiff nylon brush (one you'd find in the hardware isle, looks like a toothbrush/wire brush but stiff nylon).... then following up with misting Hydrogen peroxide thru a squirt bottle on that area before reaquascaping the pulled rock. After that, quit quit quit feeding the fish so dang much.

Ouch. I'll see what I can do! Thank you

 

[kaylshouse15]

15yrs in the hobby. The only real solution to beating GHA is pulling effected LR and scrubbing the GHA off with a stiff nylon brush (one you'd find in the hardware isle, looks like a toothbrush/wire brush but stiff nylon).... then following up with misting Hydrogen peroxide thru a squirt bottle on that area before reaquascaping the pulled rock. After that, quit quit quit feeding the fish so dang much.

what strength of HP ?

 

[excellensephotos]

what strength of HP ?

12 percent food grade

 

[Clownfish_Boy]

I read on another post of someone using Vibrant Aquarium Cleaner to get rid of GHA. Dunno how good that works.

 

[Doctorgori]

12 percent food grade

yup and there is also a food grade that’s like 30%...I was stupid and recently jacked my whole tank, NTM that stuff seriously burns ...
lots of threads on peroxide dos and don’ts

I read on another post of someone using Vibrant Aquarium Cleaner to get rid of GHA. Dunno how good that works.

It works but doesn’t like chaeto so much, if you are running algae refugium switch to sea lettuce