My brother, there is a type of pill or capsule that you dissolve in water that eliminates all algae. It is safe for coral and fish. Everything comes back clean and free of algae.
I am brand new to the hobby. I took over a neglected tank at my wifes work. It has a serious hair algae problem. So, were you just manually pulling it out and scrubbing the glass and THEN doing a water change? I really dont know much. They have a guy who comes sporadically to take care of the tank. He told us we have to start over. Drain the tank, buy new rock, sand, everything!
Great video! I’m almost a year in and I definitely think I overfeed here and there. I’m feeding various foods from mysis to the occasional bloodworms some mixed frozen and pellet. I try to not get crazy with pellets but I work long hours and sometimes I say hey, I won’t be back all day so I’ll just hit them with it before I go because it’s fast and easy. I have some green hair algae which isn’t terrible, but is unsightly. I’m gonna do a water change tomorrow and have already pulled as much out manually as I can. I have some clean up crew, but not nearly enough to manage it. So my next step is to monitor my feeding, get more CUC and watch my nitrate and phos better. Thanks.
Thank you. It's well established 30gal tank around 5-6 years. Never really had an issue before. I feed once per day, mainly miseis sometimes the flakes. I have clean up crew.
Not much information if I'm totally honest bar water changes and scrubbing the rocks..... You should have told us the parameters before you started the fix..... That would have been far more helpful..... Did you reduce the lighting period etc...... Just a generic video imo
Tangs are by far the best hair algae management in my experience. Not only do they eliminate it but they make sure it doesn’t ever come back.
great job! love the excitement in your voice.
My brother, there is a type of pill or capsule that you dissolve in water that eliminates all algae. It is safe for coral and fish. Everything comes back clean and free of algae.
Yes … It’s called fluconaloze and we use the pharmaceutical kind not pill form.
so how did you get the hair algae to go away what did you do exactly? outside of netting the algae, and what do you mean scrub the rocks?
I am brand new to the hobby. I took over a neglected tank at my wifes work. It has a serious hair algae problem. So, were you just manually pulling it out and scrubbing the glass and THEN doing a water change? I really dont know much. They have a guy who comes sporadically to take care of the tank. He told us we have to start over. Drain the tank, buy new rock, sand, everything!
Great video,
Have you an experience with Valonia algae invasive?
Thanks for the great video! What percentage of water changes did you do with each servicing? And what salt do you recommend?
25 to 50 percent depending on how the tank test.
Great video! I’m almost a year in and I definitely think I overfeed here and there. I’m feeding various foods from mysis to the occasional bloodworms some mixed frozen and pellet. I try to not get crazy with pellets but I work long hours and sometimes I say hey, I won’t be back all day so I’ll just hit them with it before I go because it’s fast and easy. I have some green hair algae which isn’t terrible, but is unsightly. I’m gonna do a water change tomorrow and have already pulled as much out manually as I can. I have some clean up crew, but not nearly enough to manage it. So my next step is to monitor my feeding, get more CUC and watch my nitrate and phos better. Thanks.
Awesome
👍. Thank you for the infos and advice. More problems solving contents please. Also more on culturing phytoplankton and pods.
That’ll be fun to do
Nice work guys! My Yellow Tang usually Refuses to eat GHA…she holds out for me to add dried seaweed lol
What a diva
Are you guys considering adding more to the CUC like more snails or crabs?
Not as of yet
Cool video, thank you both and God bless you both and your families and friends...🙏❤🙏❤🙏
what did you use to remove them?
Great information and thanks for sharing as always
You bet
Great job 👍🏽
Thank you!
hard work pays off
Sure does
What about your phosphate levels, wasn't the GHA binding it?
Phosphate was still registering but mainly it was all the extra nutrients - pellets- feeding the algae
@@aquariumservicetech2891 thank you for the reply;)
Fauna Marin rocks!
Those are not copepods that you had in that cup of algae, they are amphipods. Copepods are a lot smaller and have a different shape.
What nems are they? Are they just ordinary bubble tips?
I believe so
Looked more like amphipods in the algae. Copapods are much smaller.
They are. I use it interchangeably. It’s a habit.
What is your strategy for turf algae?
Deal with water chemistry and adding cleanup crew. Along with a regular cleaning schedule.
How often should you do water changes
Depends on many factors. Testing- age of tank- bio load.. “they” recommend 10percent once a week minimum.
Thank you. It's well established 30gal tank around 5-6 years. Never really had an issue before. I feed once per day, mainly miseis sometimes the flakes. I have clean up crew.
What par and K should I use in my fuge using a radion xr15 gen 5 ?? I do have a par meter.
Depends what your growing and as long as it’s not bleaching or killing the macro algae you should be good.
How did you soften it up?
water changes & getting off flake pellet food.
Not much information if I'm totally honest bar water changes and scrubbing the rocks..... You should have told us the parameters before you started the fix..... That would have been far more helpful..... Did you reduce the lighting period etc...... Just a generic video imo
Parameters don’t mean much when dealing with green hair algae. I’ll be more in depth in future videos. Ty for the feed back.