Green hair algae-what will eat it?

[glb]

I have a small amount of green hair algae on my rocks even tho nitrates are 5ppm and phosphates are 0.03ppm. It's a coral only setup and I currently have one peppermint shrimp and 4 hermits, none of whom seem interested. Is there any cuc who eats it or should I just brush it off the rocks? Like I said, it's not bad. And I've given up on turbo snails because the hermits keep eating them. I'd like to add maybe a sexy shrimp or other inverts for some movement. It's a 12g nano.

 

[Joeganja]

emerald crab, more snails, water changes, scrub the algae off.

 

[heathd.hd]

I recently got a frag with some gha and I decided to do a peroxide dip. The same can be done with your rock. Maybe do some looking into thay

 

[AuRush]

I have a dozen SW Molly fry you can have

 

[heathd.hd]

I got tired of waiting for my snails to.do there job on my frag.

 

[heathd.hd]

Oh well it will live on in my memory! Hahah

 

[that Reef Guy]

I got some Hair Algae on some Frags so I got 10 Tiger Trochus Snails from my LFS.

3 Days Later they Polished all the Frags Clean.

Tiger Trochus are the only Snails I will use.

As one person put it "They are the Cadillac of Snails."

And Unlike Astrea (I do not know why everyone gets these as they are worthless) they right themselves up so you are not constantly flipping them over multiple times a day only to have them die eventually.

They move Fast too.

 

[Bad Company]

A tuxedo urchin is an algae eating monster. And they will eat every kind of algae (including coralline).

 

[shornik]

+1 on what everyone else has said. If its bryopsis and not gha, than I recommend lettuce nudi's - they are amazing at eating this stuff that nothing else will. I had a pretty bad outbreak and the combination of the lettuce nudi's and Continuum Bacter Clean M, it's almost gone. The nice thing about the Clean M is that it absolutely will not affect any inverts in your tank, whereas the peroxide might.

 

[SteelerMike]

I got a sea hare when I was struggling with hair algae and he was a beast!! Only thing is they eventually run out of algae to eat. I now rotate him between my 2 tanks and my brother and father borrow him from time to time. He mows the stuff down! I had a power head in my frag tank that i had turn off and it got covered in hair algae and he cleaned it in 1 day...

 

[gemini9]

A sea hare in a 12g nano?

 

[glb]

Actually my phosban reactor and distilled water solved the problem. My nerite snails took care of the rest.

 

[Rickyrooz]

I had the same stuff and the large Tubro snails will devour them.

 

[SteelerMike]

A sea hare in a 12g nano?

LOL, I didn't notice that. I have seen them come in smaller sizes but I agree probably not the best idea. :tongue:

 

[Clownaround]

Trochus snails, turbo snails, emeralds, electric blue hermit crabs are all known for eating hair algae. If they are on frag plugs I like using a cheap tooth brush and doing some manual labor.

 

[that Reef Guy]

Trochus snails, turbo snails, emeralds, electric blue hermit crabs are all known for eating hair algae. If they are on frag plugs I like using a cheap tooth brush and doing some manual labor.

Why do manual labor when Tiger Trochus Snails will do all the Work for you.

In three days they got all the Hair Algae off many frag plugs.

 

[Vaughn17]

The money cowrie will eat long hair algae. They stay small and are herbivores. Mine have only eaten algae and not bothered my coral.

 

[Up2no6ood]

Boiling tankwater and a turkey baster! Doesn't take much to kill it.

 

[Clownaround]

Why do manual labor when Tiger Trochus Snails will do all the Work for you.

In three days they got all the Hair Algae off many frag plugs.

Because I can clean them in less than 5 minutes and if you have a large amount of algae the trochus don't always eat the algae you want them to.

 

[wowkingjames]

Thanks for the info, gonna try the trochus snail.