Hair algae defeated!

[Thunderkat]

Finally I have defeated the hair algae in my main tank! I watched as a turbo snail ate the last piece off of the last rock with hair algae today. I am so excited! I went from pulling out handfuls every day to clean rocks.

I used phosban and a phosban reactor and a second phosban reactor filled with activated carbon. I then proceeded to remove as much hair algae as I could manually then I let the snails do their job. I still had to go back every now and then and remove hair algae manually because the phosban only slowed the growth down, it didn't completly stop it. Once a snail cleared a spot though the hair algae didn't grow back in that spot.

Once the silicon cures on my new tank (put some on areas I suspeced might leak on my drilled spots) I am moving all the stuff from my 55 to the new 75 and using the 55 as a sump. I can see it now, I finally got rid of the sea spiders, cyano, aiptasia, and hair algae, so now watch stuff go haywire once I move the sand bed. There will probably be diataoms, cyano, and hair algae all come back. I wouldn't be suprised to see some of the aiptaisa I buried deep in the sand way back come back to haunt me. :lol

[mathias]

my 125 gal been running about 6 months since i moved it from my 55gal tank and saw my first aptasia last night ...... So im get my Kalk gun out :)

[truck0000]

It felt real good to me when the hair algea and cyano finally stop in my 75. Felt like I really accomplished some thing. I fought both for a year in my old 55 set up. Good job. :D

[Thunderkat]

Fire is the most fun way to kill aiptasia. :lol

[Instar]

Actually, fire used to heat the tip of a screw driver red hot will sizzle the aiptasia away along with the basal cells and also will not kill the life in the rock while fire applied directly turns the rock into base rock that also will cure again. If you take a paper towel and blot off the sizzled aiptasia, then even much of the organic solids that were in the aiptasia will not add to the fish and critter wastes in the tank. Since the rock is wet, it may take several rounds before putting the rock back if you go this route. But, this is often not at all practical if there are corals all over the place.