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Ryeguy1284 · May 12, 2013

Hair algae growing only on my green star polyp causing it not to open up I have two diff colony and they both have the same thing
What can I do

mike007 · May 12, 2013

Have you tested water? Do you use ro/di water? Most algae problems are caused by excess nutrients( overfeeding) main cause. Need to know if you have a protein skimmer and your water parameters. You will have to get a cuc and try to remove as much as you can manually.

skinz78 · May 12, 2013

I agree with mike, in the mean time you can pull it off by hand.

Rikerbear · May 12, 2013

If you can, do a hydrogen peroxide dip....will kill the HA but not damage the GSP at all. 25% h2o2 and 75% tank water is what I have used...dip them for 10 minutes.
Finding out what the cause is however is more important in the long run.

Ryeguy1284 · May 12, 2013

I just got protein skimmer last week
Nitrates are 5 ppm
Phos .25
Nitrite 0
Ammonia .25
And yes I use Rodi
Actually just put in natural sea water this water change did not test since water change yesterday

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Ryeguy1284 · May 12, 2013

I do have a pretty good clean up crew I thought I have a mixture of snails I can't even tell you what kind and how many I don't have any turbo snails they died and I have 10 hermits blue leg red leg blue knee and some other kind emerald crab pompom crabs , cleaner shrimp peppermint shrimp bumble bee shrimp sand shifting star, britle star two baby brittle stars

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Reefing Madness · May 12, 2013

You can up your CUC, throw in some GFO to clean up the phosphates causing that, got a spare mechanical filter you can throw on for that?

Mike J. · May 12, 2013

Rikerbear said:
If you can, do a hydrogen peroxide dip....will kill the HA but not damage the GSP at all. 25% h2o2 and 75% tank water is what I have used...dip them for 10 minutes.
Finding out what the cause is however is more important in the long run.

I second this, it works.