Sick of Green Hair Algae !!!

Bogartus · Jan 26, 2017

I have been dealing with green hair algae for about nine months. I have 12 fish I feed once a day alternating between flake and one cube of mysis. I do have 2 radians 70 %, a lot of light. My phosphates are around .03 usually when they go up to .08, I do a 40 gallon water change. I am thinking about putting in a Algae scrubber. Will the algae stop growing in my Display, if it starts growing well on the Scrubber ??? Does GHA Inhibit Coral growth ???

iammrhappy · Jan 26, 2017

Do you have a fuge

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dorkymk3 · Jan 26, 2017

Even with low po4 the gha is basically feeding off of it. You will need to manually prune off as much possible while siphoning it during water change. Maybe add a sea hare? You just need to be very careful and acclimate it slowly.

Bogartus · Jan 27, 2017

I have a refugium it does really well. I've added see hare's before but they seem to die pretty quickly I do have a Melaranus wrasse and a Christmas wrasse sometimes I wonder if they kill them, and eat them

theMerchant · Jan 27, 2017

what about a tuxedo urchin

JustReefBaby · Jan 27, 2017

My magnificent fox gobbles up gha, plus he's probably one of the most chill fish nobody messes with him and he doesn't bother anyone.

Bogartus · Jan 27, 2017

thanks for your suggestions, I'm still wondering if it will grow that's in my display if I put in an algae scrubber and it grows well on that?

looneywun7 · Jan 27, 2017

i used the vibrant aquarium cleaner and i cleared my tank right up

Lionshooter20 · Jan 27, 2017

Have you tried running any GFO or Phosguard in a reactor to pull phosphates down slowly?

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Bogartus · Jan 27, 2017

Yes, I am running GFO,

gonumber24 · Jan 27, 2017

If you don't have a refugium with macro algae you can use algaecide to knock out the gha.

Lionshooter20 · Jan 27, 2017

GFO seemed to work but phosguard seemed to work a lot better for me. I use to fight GHA as well but not anymore

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dorkymk3 · Jan 27, 2017

gonumber24 said:

I've used this and did help get control of my GHA

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