Help RID of GHA

Tyler Roth · Sep 5, 2016

I need some help on a tank of mine that is growing alot of GHA what kind of Crab, Snail or Hair Do i need to get to help rid of the GHA during Treatment and GFO running to eat the Alge that is all over my rocks!! I have a Mag fox face and a Yellow Cole eye and a Hippo Tang already none of the three help what so ever in eating off algae.. Need some help

reeferfoxx · Sep 5, 2016

Can you take a picture of it? Might not be hair algae?

Tyler Roth · Sep 5, 2016

Horrible i know

Tyler Roth · Sep 5, 2016

Corals and fish are Healthy but dang it the ALage is taking over fast...

reeferfoxx · Sep 5, 2016

Yeah that is Bryopsis. It's not a nutrient issue. Although it does feed off nutrients in the water column.

You need to start with manual removal by hand. Just put some ro/di water in a bowl and pull the bryopsis off at the base and put it in the fresh water. That assures the filaments don't release back into the tank. The filaments are how bryopsis spreads. You could look up some Tech M treatment for bryopsis. There are a few active threads going on here right now trying to get rid of it.

Tyler Roth · Sep 5, 2016

I have been told its GHA by many how would u say its Bryopsis..

Tyler Roth · Sep 5, 2016

the strains of alage do not look like this

justingraham · Sep 5, 2016

I'd say GHA

justingraham · Sep 5, 2016

Look on my thread I did an experiment that worked using peroxide

Tyler Roth · Sep 5, 2016

justingraham said:
Look on my thread I did an experiment that worked using peroxide

haha u have so many post i cant figure out witch one u did the review on would u mind Copying and Pasting it so i can read it and study it plz The link that is of the thread!

justingraham · Sep 5, 2016

Sure and next time just go to started threads I don't have to many of them
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/green-hair-algea-experiment.259421/

reeferfoxx · Sep 5, 2016

GHA is thinner. And what you have looks identical to what I have. There are many different types of bryopsis as well.

justingraham · Sep 5, 2016

Looks like what I had to me I don't know go with what u think op I don't want to say it's not bryopsis cause I have never had it or seen it

reeferfoxx · Sep 5, 2016

Whatever. Good luck lol...

justingraham · Sep 5, 2016

I'm fine mine looks like this now

So I don't really need luck at this point.
So where are u getting briopsy from?
Does it not look like my photo I posted to which twillard (the algea expert) told me it was GHA.
So there is no need to laugh out loud at all. Maby the reason u can't get rid of urs is because it's actually GHA but u know all I'm guessing so this was already a pointless message.
And how did u get rid of ur algea?? O u didn't u still have it.
And I don't hum maby u should lol at that and good luck to u to sir.

reeferfoxx · Sep 5, 2016

justingraham said:
I'm fine mine looks like this now

So I don't really need luck at this point.
So where are u getting briopsy from?
Does it not look like my photo I posted to which twillard (the algea expert) told me it was GHA.
So there is no need to laugh out loud at all. Maby the reason u can't get rid of urs is because it's actually GHA but u know all I'm guessing so this was already a pointless message.
And how did u get rid of ur algea?? O u didn't u still have it.
And I don't hum maby u should lol at that and good luck to u to sir.

You have GHA. Other guy doesn't.

Tyler Roth · Sep 5, 2016

this is what i started today with a big waterchange has anyone ever heard of it i read on reviews it works well!!

uncle luke · Sep 5, 2016

I used that. Didn't do anything. I tried everything. Only thing that worked was Lanthanium Chloride for me. GL

melev · Sep 6, 2016

Have you watched my video yet? Hope it helps.

MaccaPopEye · Sep 6, 2016

I highly recommend an algae turf scrubber. I posted about this just the other day so the below is just a combination of a couple of my previous posts from the other thread

Adding things like a sea hare, urchins, snails and tangs can help control the algae, but all of those animals will just eventually digest the algae and turn it into more nutrients (which then turns into more algae).

Only way I have seen work is to increase your nutrient export. Things like bigger skimmers or more water changes help a lot. But IMO macro algae is the way to go for this. Having a fuge to grow macro is good but an algae turf scrubber can be implemented without a sump or even just a sump without much room. As long as it is lit with powerful enough (and not too powerful) lights, has the correct flow and a big enough screen to handle the amount of nutrients you are adding to the system an algae scrubber should work well.

I tried everything I could think of (more clean up crew, herbivore fish, manual removal, more water changes). No matter what I did I could scrub the rocks clean and the algae was back, super long and over every surface within a week.

5 months of an algae scrubber and I am almost algae free, and the only reason IMO why it has taken so long is because I have been really busy and have only done 1 water change since I put it on and have actually started feeding double what I used to as I have added a few more fish. But still the algae is decreasing and the scrubber is going awesome

If you haven't tried one I do recommend it. Nail the screen size, lighting and flow and it should work perfectly for you! (recommended guidelines are on algaescrubber.zohosites.com)

This is my tank before (bottom pic) and 4 months after the scrubber was added (with no water changes and increased feeding). It's been almost 6 months now I think and looking even better (still a month or two to go to be algae free) but have done a bit of rescaping so it looks different and doesn't make a good before and after.

And here is the same time frame focusing on just one coral.