Green Hair Algae

[mbu man]

my tank has been set up for just under 3 months now,all is good.
im getting alot off grenn algae and on one bit of rock it is ahir algae.
i put some rawphos in one of my external filters, but it dosnt seam to of made that much difference, its been in for over 2 weeks now.
also where the hair algae is their is loads of what looks like a film of red algae,very dark red.
does this go over time??

 

[AK77]

I have hair algae, red slime, green algae... you name it. My nitrates are zero and the phosphates are at 0.25ppm. I'm running a pouch of rowaphos and just added granual ferric oxide.

There are several things you can do to combat it. Reduce your lighting. Question the amount are feeding the fish. Run GFO in a fluidized reactor. Grow macro algaes. Have a deep sand bed in your sump or display tank to absorb nitrates. Increase water changes to help kick nitrates.

Running Active carbon will help absorb nitrates, but will increase phosphates.

 

[Musho3210]

I have hair algae, red slime, green algae... you name it. My nitrates are zero and the phosphates are at 0.25ppm. I'm running a pouch of rowaphos and just added granual ferric oxide.

There are several things you can do to combat it. Reduce your lighting. Question the amount are feeding the fish. Run GFO in a fluidized reactor. Grow macro algaes. Have a deep sand bed in your sump or display tank to absorb nitrates. Increase water changes to help kick nitrates.

Running Active carbon will help absorb nitrates, but will increase phosphates.

Depends how how big the space is. Also a dsb isnt something you just get and leave, you have to "take care of it"

 

[Lynden]

I have all sorts of algae and cyanobacteria. I only have one small patch of hair algae, and I leave it be as I find it quite pretty and the microfauna inhabiting it is rich. My ten gallon tank, with tons of hair algae, grows so much microfauna that the molly and her babies are perfectly sustained; I feed the tank, at the outmost maximum, once a week.

To keep it under control, as alluded to above, keep plenty of competitors. These include corals, nems, and tridachnids.

 

[Ter]

I believe green hair aglae can feed off NO2s. might wanna check that out.
if things get out of hand
Ter