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Kenya
Sun, 18th Jul 2010, 04:09 PM
I been having a battle with brown hair algae and it finally seems that I'm winning the fight. So I was wondering what fish would help in eating all this excess brown hair algae off of my live rock and side of my tank?

Ichthy
Sun, 18th Jul 2010, 10:15 PM
i had a yellow tang that would lick the algae off the glas-s. My foxface did it sometimes but not as much as the yellow tang.

Mr.Schertz
Tue, 20th Jul 2010, 11:10 PM
Have you checked your water parameters? Is the tank fully cylcled? Maybe you could nip the problem before adding a fish? Do you use tap water or RO?DI?

Kenya
Wed, 21st Jul 2010, 03:06 AM
Ya my tank has been cycled. Been running for 5-6 months. Nitrates low same with phosphates, use RO water. I also have refugium.

I think its just in a stage until it becomes fully mature and I have only 1 snail as clean up crew and couple hermits in 90 Gallon. I do have good pink and purple Coraline algae growth even though I have quite a bit of hair algae right now.

Im prolly going to buy a sea hare this week since I hear they devour that stuff.

alton
Wed, 21st Jul 2010, 06:01 AM
Some choices; Bristle Tooth Tang, Phosban Reactor, or try adding Xenia and GSP. (Just beware both corals could take over your tank)