Alright guys what's the best way to get rid of hair algae ?? 29 gallon cube I Don't feed that much, ones every other day my lights are on for 10 hour's a day currently live stock is a pair of clown fish and a cardinal fish I do 25% water change per week, I dose fuel 7ml twice a week , what am I doing wrong? ?
Hair algae !!!!!
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Not feeding much? Kind of a relative term, fish should have all food gone in 30 seconds... What's your water source? RO is needed in this hobby. Water movement? How old are the lights? Is the lighting at full intensity for the 10 hours? That's a long time IMO. Fuel can fuel the algae as well, it has what the algae needs. Stop the dosing, you are giving the tank what it needs with those water changes. How old is the tank? What algae eaters do you have? What's your alk, and magnesium look like? Just a few thoughts without knowing your system... Ooh yea, what kind of rock do you have?
In my opinion Fuel should only be used if you have an extremely low nutrient tank otherwise I just dont think its really needed. Again just my opinion. If you have hair algae then you have excessive nutrients whether they are showing up or not. Just to give you an idea I only dose 6ml a week of fuel for 80 gallons and that was with phosphate and nitrate undetectable. So personally I think you are using too much.
First thing I would do is stop dosing the fuel. I'm assuming based on all the explanation marks behind the words "Hair Algae" that you have quite a bit so I'm guessing you are not registering much of a phosphate or nitrate reading? If you are what are your current N03 P04 levels?
What are you feeding? Do you run an reactor?
First thing I would do is stop dosing the fuel. I'm assuming based on all the explanation marks behind the words "Hair Algae" that you have quite a bit so I'm guessing you are not registering much of a phosphate or nitrate reading? If you are what are your current N03 P04 levels?
What are you feeding? Do you run an reactor?
Im using ro ,Light is 165 w led blue on at 11 at 40 % white on at 12 blue off at 8 and white off at 9 , tank has been running for 9 months with fully stable live rock , for flow I have a eco drift 4.0 + my return pump on the back chamber I have live rock and chaetomorpha I just have the stock skimmer but I never skipped a water change I may stop dosing fuel , I just started dosing live phytoplankton today, so should I feed more often? ?
