Hi all, I got that rock thing figured out but what about algae?

[twilliard]

Well to all you who has helped me in this venture, I think I finaly got it. I was unable to get any new rock for my new tank so I got creative with the rock out of my 55.
Here is a pick of my new tank. To all who was invlolved with my aquascaping I hope you think this is better.

I got my 250 watt MH's running (not in the pic though) and added what little coral I had.

So what should I do about the algae? As you can see the hair algae is still there. The other long macro is almost gone thanks to my blue hippo but he doesnt touch the hair algae.
I'm not about to get the rock out every month to scrape it down. What eats this stuff?
Thanks peoples,
Todd

 

[Reefdaddy1]

Well to all you who has helped me in this venture, I think I finaly got it. I was unable to get any new rock for my new tank so I got creative with the rock out of my 55.
Here is a pick of my new tank. To all who was invlolved with my aquascaping I hope you think this is better.

I got my 250 watt MH's running (not in the pic though) and added what little coral I had.

So what should I do about the algae? As you can see the hair algae is still there. The other long macro is almost gone thanks to my blue hippo but he doesnt touch the hair algae.
I'm not about to get the rock out every month to scrape it down. What eats this stuff?
Thanks peoples,
Todd

get a load of Mexican red leg hermits crabs, they will do the trick. Eat it like candy.

 

[twilliard]

another alternative?
The hermits in my 55 always took the food from my acans

 

[Reefdaddy1]

another alternative?
The hermits in my 55 always took the food from my acans

Red leggs I think you would be ok with. They really small and cover the rock like swarms eating all algae.

 

[nasher8860]

grab a toothbrush or one of those flexable toilet scrubber thingy's and go to town w/ water changes. (and scrubbing of course). I was servicing a 200 gallon cube w/algae that bad,and in about a month it was gone. We were doing weekly 25% changes. We also added some turbo's and long spined urchins to help aid us in the process. We also cut back feeding to 2 times a week, which made the herbivorous fish pick at it a little more. HTH

 

[liveforphysics]

I load rocks covered with hair algae that people give me into my tanks. The stronghold the chaeto has keeps algae available nutrients down around zero. This means I get to enjoy watching the hair algae just shrivel and wither away.

However, bubble algae doesnt wither, and neither does briopisis. Fortunately, the examples I put in the tank dont really seem to grow either.

So, my advice would be to have a system to outcompete the nuscience algae.

 

[plack]

Try some chaeto and/or if you want faster results and if it's not to hard to reach into the tank then I vote for the remove some water scrub off the rock in the removed water and refill then repeat next week method if you've got the time and can

 

[NaH2O]

twillard - can you post up some specs again...water parameters, age of tank, equipment on tank, water change schedule, etc etc etc. It looks like the algae in the center of the picture is dying off....it doesn't have the bright green coloration of healthy growing hair algae. Something you can try, when performing a water change, is use the siphon hose to suck up any of the dying off algae by literally putting the end of the siphon hose in the clumps of algae, and also it will remove any detritus that has accumulated in the hair (which helps to feed its growth). You can do some manual removal, provided you are diligent about sucking out what you pull...that way, if any spores are released, you can get those.