Hair alage

reef addicted · Feb 20, 2017

Whats the best way to get rid of it? Sea hare, fish, inverts, media? Whats your poison?

alexgray1122 · Feb 20, 2017

CUC. Sump light.

Jason mack · Feb 20, 2017

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TobySaelee · Feb 20, 2017

reef addicted said:
Whats the best way to get rid of it? Sea hare, fish, inverts, media? Whats your poison?

I had a bunch of hair algae and other algae about a month ago, and I decided to grab a couple emerald crabs and and got a CUC from aquarium depot along with a starry blenny from my LFS. So far its been keeping hair algae away.

Sea Hare,Emerald Crab,Tangs would eat it.

Bdog4u2 · Feb 21, 2017

I've always had tangs and never any hair algae (except in my under gravel filter days in the 90's)

flexiblewater · Feb 21, 2017

Had the same problem, tried it all Vibrant worked miracles for me.

Bdog4u2 · Feb 21, 2017

Problem with vibrant is if your parameters aren't great you can get cyano if it's present in your tank. I think the best cuc is pods they keep my side glass clean all by them selves but I also have about 17-18 years worth and a very fat leopard wrasse

flexiblewater · Feb 21, 2017

This is true I did get cyano but it did eventually go away and I'd rather deal with that than ha

SPR1968 · Feb 21, 2017

Get a tuxedo urchin. It will eat the lot!

I had/have an outbreak due to gradual phosphate increase which I've now dealt with and LFS recommended them over everything so I got 2 of them and they just eat and eat it.

It's gradually disappearing

Leadfooted · Feb 21, 2017

reef addicted said:
Whats the best way to get rid of it? Sea hare, fish, inverts, media? Whats your poison?

Sea hare is a grass eating machine and by far the best I've ever seen over any fish or crab. Second, put one or two emerald crabs in. The sea hare will eat it all up so when he does, take him out or he'll die. The emerald crabs and snails will keep it managed from there. This worked for me and then over time you can work on eliminating the algae with other methods like scrubbers, additives and parameters.

Evan West · Feb 21, 2017

TobySaelee said:
I had a bunch of hair algae and other algae about a month ago, and I decided to grab a couple emerald crabs and and got a CUC from aquarium depot along with a starry blenny from my LFS. So far its been keeping hair algae away.

Sea Hare,Emerald Crab,Tangs would eat it.

My starry doesn't touch the stuff lol tho i wish he would.