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01/08/2004, 11:29 AM
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Found a way to eliminate hair algae and its working
Ive been battling with hair algae for a while and I've tried many things that work but not work completly. So far Ive tried:
Cutting my lights down to 8hrs a day emerald crabs Yellow tang Switching my rock out with rock from my 55g so my Diadema Urchin could eat it(that worked really great except he likes eating soft corals, so non of my rocks with corals on em could go in there) Manually pulling gobs of it out. Finally since I cant setup a refugium to this tank right now due to room, I figured out another way I could eliminate it. A friend of mine gave me a TON of spagetti macro for my refugium on my 55g tank. Well Im still working on it so its in a 10g holding tank just growing outta control. First I went threw and scrubbed all the hair algae off every peice of rock that I could. Then I did a 20% water change Next I took as much spagetti macro as I could and put it in the tank closest to the light near the top. I tried to stick all of it but about a handfull from the 10g tank. Stuffed it everywhere in the tank. Now instead of cutting the hours of light on the tank I did the exact opposite. I increased the lighting up to 14hrs, over a 2 day period. Ive had the system running for a week like this now and it seems to be working really well. All the hair algae is receeding and everything I scrubbed hasnt grown back any. All the hair algae that is there is turning brown and greyish. Ima wait about 3 more weeks then Ima pruin most of the macro down to were there is only about a handfull in there and leave that as the primary algae. Hope this helps some people that cant add a refugium to their system. This trick worked for me 
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01/08/2004, 11:43 AM
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Very good, I've always found that having some sort of macro algae in the main tank worked best at removing nutrients and reducing hair algae
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