Green hair Algae

[Rugger]

I have got green hair algae starting to grow is that good or bad? All my parms are right.

 

[Sniperhank]

Bad. The algae is growing from excess nutrients and nitrates. Yoir nitrates are shoeing low or at 0 because the algae is consuming it.

 

[Rugger]

Suggestion on getting rid of it???

 

[AquaRick]

lower your feeding amount/schedule.

 

[themartins]

How much and how often are you feeding? Most tend to overfeed without knowing it. Algae needs 3 things to grow: 1.) nutrients (nitrates or phosphate) usually from overfeeding 2.) light and 3.) water

Scrub off as much as you can with a toothbrush, syphon it out doing a 25% water change. Replace with nitrate/phosphate free water (check water source to be sure). Reduce lighting time to 8 - 9 hours. Most people only feed a small amount every other day. Trochus snails and turbo snails will help as well.

 

[Rugger]

I have only had the snails ( 100 Nassarius and 50 Periwinkle) in the tank since cycling it. I just added a Ocellaris Clownfish 2 days ago. So the algae started like 2 days before adding the clown to the tank. I will post a pic.

 

[Rugger]

Here some pics

 

[boardsurfer]

Are you using RO/DI water?

Hard to tell from my phone, but maybe only green hair algae on one rock and green coralline on the others?

 

[uscamaro]

Holy cow that's a lot of snails!