chris124
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I have hair algae starting to grow on my rocks and need help with killing it and removing it from the tank before it gets out of control. I was thinking about getting some turbo snails what do you think? Thanks.
Hair algae please help.
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Snails work great! You may also need to look at how you are removing nitrates rom your system. WC? Algae export? DSB?
Tell us more about your setup.
I was battling gha for months. I setup a refugium, ran gfo, lowered feeding, and wc's. Not much changed until I started to up my mag over 1200 and lowered my lighting intensity and duration. 90% of my gha is now gone. I also added $100 worth if inverts that probably helped a lot. I no longer run gfo and I feed pretty heavy. Gha is a pita. Good luck
I was battling gha for months. I setup a refugium, ran gfo, lowered feeding, and wc's. Not much changed until I started to up my mag over 1200 and lowered my lighting intensity and duration. 90% of my gha is now gone. I also added $100 worth if inverts that probably helped a lot. I no longer run gfo and I feed pretty heavy. Gha is a pita. Good luck
Use SeaKlear to get the phosphates out immediately, then you can either stick with that, (a liquid remover) or jump to GFO using a reactor.
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I would definately run a GFO reactor.....you may want to increase your water changes to every week as well (assuming you are using phosphate free RO/DI water). The snails will help clean it up and keep it in check but you want to cut it at the source if possible.
