bought a nano full of hair algae.

[Pancho]

I got this 24 gallon tank from one of our fellow reefers. The tank is infested with hair algae. Today I took all of the LR out I put in a lawn mower blenny. the tank has a Current MH light. his explanation for the bloom was the
"bulb is OLD" I got some nice frags of hard corals with it, some monti and some birdsnest as well as some leather coral frags. So I have scrubbed those and I am thinking I Want to put them on a temporary 10 gallon tank (it has been set for over 3 months) but does anyone know how I can attack this algae best? has any one won that battle. I added my uv filter in there for now it is an 8w I believe with a small pump.

 

[danagui]

cook the rock in saltwater for like a week with high flow and snails....and in the tank just scrub it as best u can and try a small CUC

 

[BigDaddyStar]

Easiest way....boil all the rock...kill it completely...clean the tank up of course and manually remove all the rest....there are not to many options for a nano...hopefully someone else will have a good idea

 

[Pancho]

thanks paul and Yes I am considering your tanks bro!

 

[jbaeza83]

get a couple of emerald crabs, those do a great job.

 

[Pancho]

any one have emerald crabs for sale? do they attack fish, or coral?

 

[BigDaddyStar]

No worries...I will get around to posting them in a couple days for sale so just let me know.....

The crabs will be just fine...they are suppose to pick off corraline algae though

Another method is using hydrogen peroxide that might work for you too...It is safe for corals but of course better if they are not there...I believe its a 50/50 mixture of saltwater to H2o2 mixture...soak it in a bucket and they hair algae is suppose to melt away

thanks paul and Yes I am considering your tanks bro!

 

[Pancho]

Doing the research on this method with Hydrogen peroxide, I think I will give it a try

 

[SchnitzelReef]

get a sea slug they will devour that hair algae i foget the exact name but its something like that

 

[Mr. Plant]

I think its called sea Hare slug.

 

[SchnitzelReef]

thats it.. sea hare thanks lol

 

[lovingacans]

sea hare......

 

[Pancho]

Yes I'm actually looking for Rosie. The sea hare, last I heard was that bad santa has her... So I tried to PM him. Waiting on answer.

 

[BigDaddyStar]

I think it would be a little radical for a nano...I imagine most of your hair algae(glass, pumps, walls) can be removed manually. dipping and adequate flow and tank parameters should take care of the rest. Nanos are notorious for hair algae since they usually do not have enough flow

 

[bad santa]

Yes I'm actually looking for Rosie. The sea hare, last I heard was that bad santa has her... So I tried to PM him. Waiting on answer.

Yeah shes fat and muching away on the algea. she should be done hopefully by the end of the week. Ill send you a pm when shes ready for pick up.

 

[Pancho]

Please do bad santa!!! I just don't want to kill all beneficial bacteria in my tank by dipping in hydrogen peroxide.

 

[Molli]

When you do peroxide you don't have to soak the rocks. You can remove the rock to treat, use a syringe to drip peroxide on the algae, let it sit for a few minutes, give it a quick rinse in some saltwater and return it to the tank. The algae should die off in a day or too.
We use peroxide in planted tanks to take care of all kinds of algae, up to 3ml a gallon. Not sure of the upper limits in the water for a salt tank though.
Don't allow contact of full strength peroxide on soft corals, I read on RC that it will burn them.

 

[captain obsessions]

It worked on zoa for me +1