Reef2reef Green Hair Algae

Hair algae like Ive never seen. Green Spot Algae GSA GSA looks like tiny hard green spots on the aquarium walls and slower growing plants that are very difficult to clean off.

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Siamese algae eaters amano shrimp molly fish and Florida flagfish are good candidates to use as clean-up crew.

Reef2reef green hair algae. What have been the most successful ways of managing hair algae. Keep the surface hair algae free and the good stuff will come. Start date Dec 26 2020.

Hi Guys I have a lot of GHA in my tank and Im trying to get rid of it. I went through a quick diatom bloom after and then things started to look beautiful. Green Hair Algae.

Luckily it is only. I had elevated nitrate and phoshate levels nitrate were around 25 and phosphate 004. Green hair algae is one of the most commonly known.

But its a pretty straightforward algae. I just had a really bad hair algae issue as well. If you have a saltwater tank but no corals switch to a non-coral saltwater mix in order to keep your levels low.

Really helped a lot. Just wondering who has battled this reef plague. Thread starter Matt Jackson.

Hi I have green hair algae in my nano tank. Id say it looks more brown than green but of course that could be light. New lights better filtration and boom.

That seemed to at least keep it from getting out of control. A mate of me advised me to make a chaeto reactor after 2 weeks of running a chaeto reactor my hannah phosphate checker gives 0. I have had my tank fish only for 3 years and just recently started trying to grow corals.

Green Hair is actually tougher to get rid of than cyano---because it pretty well WILL run its course in a tank. Its very minimal and I can just remove it for the most part I think. You can also help them by manually removing large clumps using a toothbrush.

Is this green hair algae. Green Hair Algae or GHA is really a broad term that covers hundreds of species of green simple filamentous algae. These species tend to be simple fine in texture and have few distinguishable features.

It forms coats or short filaments that grow close together and that are tremendously difficult to remove from your aquarium. More a nuisance than anything else green hair algae is not toxic to fish or invertebrates. If you dont treat hair algae quickly it has the potential to grow like mad.

A lot of new people hearing the bit about phosphate run out and get a phosphate test. Chevron tang fish are great at eating algae. Matt Jackson Community Member View Badges.

Algae grazers control the hair algae giving coraline and good bacteria a chance to grow. Around month 3 I even started to get a few small splotches of pink coralline algae on the glass. This is pretty useless for the green hair algae period of a tank.

Couple damsels and an eel. I started with a Waterbox 1003 tank about 4 months ago that now I have some fish and a few coral. True species level identification requires a microscope.

They enjoy microalgae but will also eat green hair and brown diatom algae as well. I also during water changes I would take out the rocks and scrub with a toothbrush in the old water. Tagged users None Dec 26 2020 1 M.

This happens whether the rock and reef are old new established not established leaching phosphate not leaching phosphate - whatever - the process is the same. I ended up getting phosphate remover turning off my lights for about 2-3 weeks and fed less. As it grows it takes on the appearance of silky green hair.

For some varieties of fish with fewer scales such as doitsu koi hairy algae can cut into the fishs skin and cause secondary infections. No more hair algae. To prevent hair algae growth in the first place reef safe hermit crabs are the order of the day.

It grows like mad in a new tank. However thick mats can cause fish and invertebrates to become entangled keeping them from eating. Joined Jan 17 2019 Messages 52 Reaction score 22 Review score 0 0 -0.

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