✌️ Green Hair algae gone naturally 🍃

Dealing with green hair algae in a saltwater aquarium. #aquariumfish #fishtank #reeftank #saltwaterfishtank

[@matthewhayden6505]

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.

[@brianlantz1802]

I love your videos!! So informative. 15 year reefer still learning!

[@queencityreefs]

great job! love the excitement in your voice.

[@ReefingRyan]

somthing that really helps is to get a reactor going so when you are scrubbing and releasing all of the stored phos back into the water, that GFO can strip the phos before is causes another bloom

[@الطرفالاخر-ن4ر]

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.

[@aquariumservicetech2891]

Yes … It’s called fluconaloze and we use the pharmaceutical kind not pill form.

[@CoralMan24]

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?

[@richido71]

Great video, Have you an experience with Valonia algae invasive?

[@Lraepsirhc1]

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.

[@aquariumservicetech2891]

Awesome

[@kimlovesfun]

Nice work guys! My Yellow Tang usually Refuses to eat GHA…she holds out for me to add dried seaweed lol

[@aquariumservicetech2891]

What a diva

[@helwrj28]

Thanks for the great video! What percentage of water changes did you do with each servicing? And what salt do you recommend?

[@aquariumservicetech2891]

25 to 50 percent depending on how the tank test.

[@arnoldadolfo5603]

what did you use to remove them?

[@JohnSmith-qy2wm]

👍. Thank you for the infos and advice. More problems solving contents please. Also more on culturing phytoplankton and pods.

[@aquariumservicetech2891]

That’ll be fun to do

[@_Kensexotics]

Are you guys considering adding more to the CUC like more snails or crabs?

[@aquariumservicetech2891]

Not as of yet

[@rheljarrard9566]

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!

[@johnbubbajohnson5630]

Cool video, thank you both and God bless you both and your families and friends...🙏❤🙏❤🙏

[@ou812painting]

Great information and thanks for sharing as always

[@aquariumservicetech2891]

You bet

[@mckenzie390]

Great job 👍🏽

[@aquariumservicetech2891]

Thank you!

[@edchasan5283]

How often should you do water changes

[@aquariumservicetech2891]

Depends on many factors. Testing- age of tank- bio load.. “they” recommend 10percent once a week minimum.

[@edchasan5283]

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.

[@reefs363]

What is your strategy for turf algae?

[@aquariumservicetech2891]

Deal with water chemistry and adding cleanup crew. Along with a regular cleaning schedule.

[@Brad-k]

What about your phosphate levels, wasn't the GHA binding it?

[@aquariumservicetech2891]

Phosphate was still registering but mainly it was all the extra nutrients - pellets- feeding the algae

[@Brad-k]

@@aquariumservicetech2891 thank you for the reply;)

[@fishwhistler7224]

What par and K should I use in my fuge using a radion xr15 gen 5 ?? I do have a par meter.

[@aquariumservicetech2891]

Depends what your growing and as long as it’s not bleaching or killing the macro algae you should be good.

[@Lee-he2qp]

What nems are they? Are they just ordinary bubble tips?

[@aquariumservicetech2891]

I believe so

[@plyr6369]

How did you soften it up?

[@aquariumservicetech2891]

water changes & getting off flake pellet food.

[@mmagscott]

Looked more like amphipods in the algae. Copapods are much smaller.

[@aquariumservicetech2891]

They are. I use it interchangeably. It’s a habit.

[@mikemcgrath8453]

hard work pays off

[@aquariumservicetech2891]

Sure does

[@josephposada1830]

Fauna Marin rocks!

[@geoffminton7668]

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.

[@beerthirst476]

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

[@aquariumservicetech2891]

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.