you need a herd of Tangs too, to graze.
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you need a herd of Tangs too, to graze.[/quote]
That’s what I was thinking hahaha
The old owner of the FB use to let me do that with the one they had in the tank. And I return it to them once I was done. She would sell it to other people and it would die after that.
Herd of yellow tangs would be great. One of my favorite fish to keep.
yes, yellow tangs seem to be better grazers than some others. like a blue hippo. or at least, mine was.
Well, looks like the hair algae will not go away sooner than I thought. I have a sea hare in there right now. I think he is eating it, I see him eating something, but not for sure because there’s still a lot of it still around. I turn the light off in the tank for about a week and it still there. The only thing it effect was the one acro frag turn brown.
My next option is to raise the Magnesium level in the tank to 1500-1600 and we’ll see how that will go.
I have never seen this type of hair algae before. Have anyone had any experience with this type of hair algae? it’s not the typical hair algae that I have experienced or seen before. This one is long and slimy. Very hard to pull off due to it sliminess. It anchor very well into the crevice of the rock to be able to pull it off completely from the rock.
Anyone had experience with it please let me know how I can get rid of it.
I just caught up, A. My god. Lol
OMG is right. I need to get rid of it!!
Hey AJ. Ive got some large short spine urchins in the nasty old 75 i got to take down. I’ll lend you one and lets see if it likes your algea. they do good on the hair and red hair. you have some kinda turf algea or durbeasa. they might like it. try one, and if it goes for it i got a couple more you can use to mow the lawn. kinda like staking goats out in the front yard.
A, to me this looks like bryopsis, something that nearly cost me grtting out of the hobby. Hit up dunk, he used a supplement that wiped it out of his system some time back.
Wow - looks like some jungle stuff in there. That’s some thick stemmed algae, I can’t say I’ve seen anything like that before.
You can try Algaefix Marine. It’s a reef safe algaecide, and it works, I’ve used it in the past with good results. There’s a HUGE thread about it on Reef Central if you want to look into it. Like most others, I don’t like dumping stuff like that in my tank, but I have used it on at least 2 different tanks and it helps big time. I never had issues with it affecting corals or inverts or anything, just algae.
I don’t know if it will help with hair type algae, but peroxide works for beating the crap out of cyano and dino’s. Again, I’ve used peroxide before too and the only effect it had in my tank were the zoanthids would close up for a little while, but they were fine. Nothing else was affected.
IMO - since your tank is still very young, you can always pull the corals you have and have someone hang on to them for a little while if you want to dose the Algaefix or peroxide.
Thanks Ken I’ll take you up on that. Did some research and I do believe it’s some kind of bryopsis, but don’t know what kind. Try to find pictures of it but some come close, but no cigars. Never seen this type of bryopsis before. I’ll get with Tim and see how he got rid of his.
True Todd, tank is young, but I think I’m gonna try the natural way first then use the Algaefix as the second to last resort. And all else fail, all the rocks are coming out and nuke them.
Kent tech m will wipe out byropsis. It raises magnesium. I also used it. I took my mag up to 1600 and kept it there and.watched it melt away.
for me it was a mix of Kent Tech M and peroxide dipping the rocks I could, was gone in a week after fighting it for 4 or 5 months.
I was reading somewhere (yes i can read) that people were dumping peroxide into there tanks. But certain live stock didnt like it, (go figure) but that supposedly cures it too.i don’t think nems and snails liked it too much. But fish were ok.
Does it have to be Kent Tech M? I have some Dowflake and good old Epson salt that I use to raise my Mg. Will that work?
How do you use the peroxide? Just dose it in the tank? If so how much? Frank, you use a different container to do it? Just a dip or how long you leave the rocks in the container?
I’ve never done it but I think I read it needs to be kent tech M. Something about another ingredient in kent tech M that actually kills the algae. I have a little bit of hair algae right now and am trying a product called algaefix marine by API.
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Does it have to be Kent Tech M? I have some Dowflake and good old Epson salt that I use to raise my Mg. Will that work?
How do you use the peroxide? Just dose it in the tank? If so how much? Frank, you use a different container to do it? Just a dip or how long you leave the rocks in the container?[/quote]
I think it was 10ml 9f peroxide per gallon of tank water. I will see if i can find the info
If you search peroxide dosing there is a million pages to read. Looks like most are dosing it for dinoflagellates and not hair algea
Agreed - I think Tech M has a byproduct in it or some other additive like Matt said which aids in taking out the algae. Not too sure if anything else will work - or work right anyway.
Peroxide did wonders for my tank when I had dinos a few years ago. It also helps with battling cyano. It did for me anyway. Some people have good result using it as a dip, but I’ve never done that before, too scared to do it I guess. Peroxide acts very similar to dosing ozone. It’s H203 and once it’s dosed into your tank, it becomes unstable and turns itself into water with free oxygen. It oxidizes the water column, rapidly increasing the 02 in the tank, but the downside is, the ORP drops like a rock shortly after. Then, it comes back up and stabilizes. Also, since it oxidizes the water column like ozone, you will get clearer water out of it too, nothing like ozone can do, but very similar to carbon.
When I was using peroxide, it was basically a last ditch effort to take out the dinos. It was nasty. I would occasionally use it as a maintenance dose, maybe once a week or something and I will say your soft corals (zoas in particular) don’t like it. They’ll close up but reopen in about 20 mins or so. My nems seemed unaffected, but I had flower nems, not bta’s or any clown hosting nems.
From reading this thread I now know what kind of algae I have in my tank(dinoflagellates) in addition to cyano. Now to figure out how to get rid of it. I have softies and lps in my tank. Does the peroxide dosing affect inverts?