Need help! Green hair algae on base rock!

[fuxing1985]

My tank is about 10 days old now. I started with 10 lbs caribsea live san, 10 lbs caribsea base rock and 2 lbs live rock. Yesterday I found some green hair algae on the base rock. Today I found that they grew quite a bit and started to spread onto the glass. They are thin and green-yellowish. I have 4 snails and 2 hermits in my tank. But they seem to only stay on the live rock and never go to the base rock. I wonder if this type of green hair algae is hard to eliminate and what should I do to eliminate them.
Thanks!

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[N1Husker]

Your picture didn't show up but we need to know what type of snails. Crabs are hit or miss, some will eat it some won't. I had an emerald crab that would mow it down, but I had 2 more that wouldn't touch it. Mexican turbo snails are pretty good at green hair algae. Hopefully it is GHA and not byopsis, nothing that I know of touches that. GHA will spread, as you probably well know. What size of tank do you have and do you have fish? How many fish, how often do you feed? Need a little more info. Also welcome to Reef Frontiers from Cougar country.

 

[kpiotrowski]

are you running lights? I cycle my tanks with no light! give a chance for a good bifilm to develop. try no light for 6 weeks.

 

[fuxing1985]

Thank you! I tried again. Hopefully the picture will show up this time. It is a 10 gallon tank. I have 4 Margarita snails. I do not have any fish yet. I have the light on for 8-10 hours every day. I have 2 20W 50/50 coralife PC.

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Your picture didn't show up but we need to know what type of snails. Crabs are hit or miss, some will eat it some won't. I had an emerald crab that would mow it down, but I had 2 more that wouldn't touch it. Mexican turbo snails are pretty good at green hair algae. Hopefully it is GHA and not byopsis, nothing that I know of touches that. GHA will spread, as you probably well know. What size of tank do you have and do you have fish? How many fish, how often do you feed? Need a little more info. Also welcome to Reef Frontiers from Cougar country.

 

[fuxing1985]

are you running lights? I cycle my tanks with no light! give a chance for a good bifilm to develop. try no light for 6 weeks.

Will the coralline algae on the live rock die too without light?

 

[kpiotrowski]

you can always seed coraline. if its that concerning you could burry the new rock under the live rock to hide it from the light, but still lessen the light cycle.