Any ideas???

[Dbarnes]

This stuff is floating around, has hair algae in it it look like but is a white fur? It almost looks like bleached algae. My crabs and corals are all eating it but it that a good or bad thing??

 

[Walter White]

Any ideas???

Hard to tell from the pic but your description sounds like something i got when our house sitter dumped hand lotion in my tank. You havent had any feminine hygene products around the tank have you? Lol

Seroiusly though what i had went away after about 3-4 weeks with lots of water changes. Yeah i know im no help here.

 

[Dr.DiSilicate]

Any ideas???

I think you need a couple of tunze streams, then all gone... Lol I'm no help either.


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[Smiley]

its just a common algae that has broken off and is in the die off stage. Usually happens when there is a spike in nutrients and then they are cleaned up naturally. Either siphon it out or let your CUC take care of it. Did you by chance heavily feed one day or change your lighting?

 

[Dbarnes]

Any ideas???

Hard to tell from the pic but your description sounds like something i got when our house sitter dumped hand lotion in my tank. You havent had any feminine hygene products around the tank have you? Lol

Seroiusly though what i had went away after about 3-4 weeks with lots of water changes. Yeah i know im no help here.

Haha no I have been limiting how much lotion a feed the fish... I just changed a bunch of water as an effort to continue the fight against my hair algea(I'm starting too win) so I'm thinking its die off

 

[Dbarnes]

Any ideas???

I think you need a couple of tunze streams, then all gone... Lol I'm no help either.


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Yes when I make the wave maker out of them it will be much better!! :0

 

[Dbarnes]

Any ideas???

its just a common algae that has broken off and is in the die off stage. Usually happens when there is a spike in nutrients and then they are cleaned up naturally. Either siphon it out or let your CUC take care of it. Did you by chance heavily feed one day or change your lighting?

Yea I have been changing 150gal a week the last three weeks I. A continued effort to fight algea and it's working so far really well. I agree I think it is die off but it seems add it all happened at once

 

[xxHLTxx]

G.D!! 150g a week...

 

[Dbarnes]

Any ideas???

Haha yea but between that, hand picking, tech m mag at 1700+, sea hare and three tangs it is all but gone. Been doing 75gal twice a week and a ton of mag It's about 360gal total though

 

[Walter White]

Sweet jeebus thats allot of water change. What kind of salt do you use?

 

[Dbarnes]

Any ideas???

Salinity.... It's been an expensive month lol

 

[static reef]

Re: Any ideas???

I had a battle a few months ago with hair. I returned from a deployment to find that my wife was spending to much time feeding and not enough time doing water changes. My phosphates were not incredibly high but water changes were working to slow to fix the priblem so I bought two cowries from aquamart. What beautiful and awesome critters. They demolished the algae in 2 weeks with no damage to coralds at all. When the majority was gone they did start to run over some polyps though. This is my really long way of highly recommending a 40 dollar solution to everyone if they happen to get hair in their tank

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