How to remove green hair algea?

**Tamama** · 24th Aug 2010, 15:22

I think green hair algea grows fast on fissiden and mosses.

Anyone know a way to remove it without using hand to pull it out once in a while?

**barmby** · 8th Sep 2010, 15:26

Try spraying Hydrogen Peroxide with a syringe on them. Use with diligence

**Shadow** · 8th Sep 2010, 22:13

starve SAE and Yamato shrimps

**herns** · 9th Sep 2010, 15:17

Originally Posted by Tamama

I think green hair algea grows fast on fissiden and mosses.

I have the same problem with my fissiden ground cover.

**Shadow** · 10th Sep 2010, 10:20

IMO the best wqay still manually remove as much as possible, then use algae eater to finish the one that you miss.

**Goththug** · 11th Sep 2010, 00:06

I'm a newbie in this hobby and just had the same problem recently. After some research, i stopped my fertilizer dosing and did a blackout for 3 days, followed by reduced photo-period (6 hours instead of my usual 10 hours) and did daily 10% water change. After about a week, now i see most of the hair algae turning white (hope its a sign that its dying off).
I'm not sure what i did is correct, but just sharing. Hope it helps! Cheers!

**barmby** · 12th Sep 2010, 15:07

Good to know. Water change always help especially for smaller tanks like 10-30 GAL type. They (include Amano's tank) sometime do water change on a daily basis.