IM HAVING TROUBLE REMOVING BROWN HAIR ALGAE IM MANUALLY REMOVING BY HAND EVERYDAY BUT STILL COMING BACK WHAT CAN I DO, I KNOW I NEED A REACTOR BUT NO $ RIGHT NOW, WHAT CAN I DO IN MEANWHILE BEFORE I GET ONE IVE BEEN DOSING VOLDKA STARTED LAST WEEK 1ML 1ST WEEK NOW 2ND WEEK 2ML BUT HAVINT SEEN ANY IMPROVEMENTS? SHOULD I DO SMALL WATER CHANGES EACH WEEK ? 180 GALLON 40 GAL SUMP TANK ABOUT 1 YR OLD:a40:
Brown hair algae need help!!!!!!!!
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30ppm it .3ppm? Either way it's high. I don't know much about dosing vodka but it may take a while for the carbon source to start working? Hopefully someone with more kowlegde of carbon dosing will chime in. I don't see why you wouldn't do water changes. Maybe large ones. I have always stick with 30% changes
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Atm makes lanthanum chloride it's cheap and I've seen it remove phosphate while I was cooking my rock. Maybe this will help. also maybee turning off lights for a few days and reduction in light. I say this because my friends tank got taken over by some types of macro, I tested his tank and it was pretty clean. P04 was 0.8 and no3 was around 10-20 point being the tank can be acceptably clean by test kits and still have alge thriving. Also I've heard somthing about Kent marines magnesium having a effect on hair alge, if someone else can explain y. Just somthing I heard from another reefer.
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When my rocks were covered in red hair algae, I removed the larger rocks and poured 3% peroxide directly on the algae. I let it sit out of the water for about 5 minutes, rinsed in a bucket of tank water from a water change and then back in tank. Picked up 6 turbos to clear the left overs, but after a week it was gone. Give it a week to slowly die, if it's similiar to what I had. I seen a thread about the peroxide treatment on Reef2Reef and it worked.
