Hair algae problem

Maxx Yung · Feb 24, 2019

Hello! I have a Nuvo 10 with a lot of hair algae. Anyone have luck with a fish that eats hair algae while able to survive in a 10 gal? I have 2 hermits, 2 astreas and 1 conch. They are not making a dent in the hair algae problem.

I can also get a lawnmower, and after he cleans it up, move it into my 200?

Sashaka · Feb 24, 2019

If its GHA, black out the tank (lights out and wrap tank to keep all daylight out) for several days to weeks depending on severity of outbreak. Do more frequent and/or larger water changes.

Maxx Yung · Feb 24, 2019

i got corals. im looking for algae eaters. i feed only once every 2 days, rox carbon, weekly 80% water change (8 gallons~). however, it is a new tank.

Lasse · Feb 24, 2019

Have you test long spin urchins? IMO you need more hermits of different species - 10 more or so.

Sincerely Lasse

Maxx Yung · Feb 24, 2019

you thinking that i should get long spined urchins? they are venomous, lol. i really do not like hermits at all. many bad experiences with them.

Lasse · Feb 24, 2019

Yes they can be venomous but not deadly if you do not have issues. For me its like a wasp. But they are IMO one of the best when you have an algae issue. They eat most species of algae, do not collect frags and dancing around easily and carefully like Nureyev did

You maybe not like hermits but they like algae - a lot

IMO - avoid the Blue Leg Hermit Crab (Clibanarius tricolor) and the large beach hermits. Get as many differen small species as possible

Sincerely Lasse

Sashaka · Feb 24, 2019

New tanks often go through some algae problems until balanced. You could wait it out or in the worst case scenario you could dose with peroxide to kill initial growth - but then figure out what's causing the problem or it will just come back. Bare in mind that I would probably opt for waiting it out and doing more water changes because a newly cycled tank is delicate and can become unstable easily.

Maxx Yung · Feb 27, 2019

i do 80% change per week lol

brandon429 · Feb 27, 2019

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/s...r-a-full-rework-skip-cycle-reassembly.525310/

100% fixed h algae

If you ran that method both the cause and the fix would be addressed. Most readers opt out since it involves actual work and not something we can buy and dose to the water, they opt in to keeping the algae for months and months which is an interesting choice. For the serious select few willing, we have no fails logged. that method is the safest for coral since it doesn't use an extended param altering/starvation approach. We kill targets via surgery.

Sarah24! · Mar 7, 2019

Lasse said:
Have you test long spin urchins? IMO you need more hermits of different species - 10 more or so.

Sincerely Lasse

Hello,

If it’s one person I trust (well I have several) but it’s you. I am starting to get some hair algae on some rocks and not sure how to get rid of it. I had s long spine urchin Awesome but they also like bulldoze sps frags. Would a small small long spine sea urchin be better or still a dozer.

What about (uv sterilizer (adding more), and would you suggest using vibrance at all?

Lasse · Mar 7, 2019

Thank you for the kind words but the only one you should trust is your own ability to weight together different opinions and adjust them to the conditions in your own aquaria.

IMO - the long spines are among the urchins that is less dozer compared with other urchins and younger ones is more “careful” compared with older and larger. IMO – they are more effective too. I think that everyone has seen how a teenager eat – and how much.

I do not know the “secret” content of Vibrance and had never seen any explanation how it works. In cases like this I always is sceptical to use a product that says it kills in a selective way. For me – it is like you have your secret love on the other side of the river. To come there you can either take the road (200 km) or swim across the river (250 m) However, the chin is that sometimes there is a shoal of hungry piranhas in the river. You don't know when or how. In which circumstances will you test swimming instead of the time-consuming highway? In my case – when I do not know the conditions – I take the long and winding road as the song says

Sincerely Lasse

Mical · Mar 7, 2019

Up your magnesium to about 1500, your GHA won't survive long.

Sashaka · Mar 10, 2019

Maxx Yung said:
i do 80% change per week lol

IMO, if you're doing 80% water change on a 10 gal per week, you have another issue causing the problem. Is your tank near a window? Do you overfeed? Do you use RODI water or tap? You'll need to figure out what is the cause and address that or no matter what you dose with, the problem will come back. Good luck!

Lasse said:
I take the long and winding road as the song says

I love that song!

I think "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost is also a good example. We all make decisions based on our perceptions of the moment. I think it's true that people may avoid the unknown because to do so seems the safer of two evils. I guess in the end, only time will tell if our choices were the right ones. I know some of my choices have been right on and some have been...well... let's not talk about them. LOL ;Shamefullyembarrased