Help!- Hair Algae

[jcolon2]

Hello. Recently, I lost almost all specimens in my tank (exlcuding four fish), even the clean up crew due to a large water change that was improperly done. The water I had to use was bottled water due to my faucet adapter on the rodi not working. Anyway, my neighbor cared for the tank while I was on vacation. She did one feeding a day so as not to pollute the tank while I was gone. I returned home, one week later, to find my entire tank covered in hair algae. The glass is covered in it, and the magnets have not completely taken it off. I am going to use an old gift card to scrape it off the glass. What do I do about the rocks and the sand (which is covered in large amounts of dark brown). The sea hares are too much at the lfs. Advice? Thanks in advance.

Justin

 

[beerfish]

Test your water and then start with water changes, carbon, phosban, etc.

Good husbandry will take care of it with some time.

 

[nanchil]

I was in the same situation 6 months back. My tank was like a plant tank full of HA. All I did was, got 20 Mexican Turbo snail from Dom (vendor here) and it took care of my HA in 3 days. I was surprised. And yes it worked for me. Now no more HA for me though and in fact no more any algae. Good luck...

 

[jrobbins]

Pull out as much of it as you can by hand, and then get a bunch of snails (dont go too crazy on the snails though) to finish it off and keep it from regrowing. running some gfo will really help too.

 

[jcolon2]

Thanks guys! I am on it.

 

[Donewiththisplace]

AlgaeFix marine works pretty well too....remove carbon, sponges and other media first and treat for about a week as indicated on the bottle.

 

[morphiii]

Get a proper RO-DI unit and change out the water the best you can, snails should help in the mean time.