ID Hair Algae Type & Suggestions

[julesg]

Hi

I am having a bit of a problem with some sort of hair algae growing on my Christmas Tree moss, as shown below.



I am hoping that someone can provide some suggestions to getting rid of it.

Tank details:
86 Litre Freshwater - 8 Weeks since setup
80 Watts of fluorescent for 7 hours/day
Water - 26°C, pH:6.8, NO3:5mg/l, NO2: 0, KH: 2.8°dH, GH: 6.72°dH, CO2: 20ppm during light period.

Other parameters available.

Any help appreciated.

Jules.

[yeoyl87]

oh this is hair algae. There will be an outbreak if there is too much nutrient in the water. you can try to manually remove the big mess with a tooth brush first. then slowly control your fert input

[Shadow]

If I were you, I would just throw away the moss. It entangle all over the moss, remove manually using tooth brush will probably remove the moss as well.

You can try remove the whole thing and soak it in bleach.

[yeoyl87]

oh ya, regarding the bleach method which bro shadow mentioned. Do refer to http://www.aquaticquotient.com/forum...ad.php?t=27046 first. Bro stanchung had specified the optimum mixture of bleach and water. Do read up first then try or else all your moss will perished

[julesg]

Thanks for the replies.

I knew it was a type of hair algae, was wondering what type so as to treat more specifically.

Removing it would certaintly fix the problem! Was hoping for some less dramatic suggestions first. But if that is the only solution...

Thanks

[Shadow]

Yamato shrimp eat hair algae or maybe SAE

[ad9465]

quote256302]Yamato shrimp eat hair algae or maybe SAE[/quote] they'll eat your moss too after they are done with the algae.

[Shadow]

My Yamato is moss friendly, or maybe because my moss grow so fast that couple of leaves a day does not make any different

[luenny]

Does Yamato and SAE really eat hair algae? Anyway, SAE with moss is really a bad combination. Look at this: http://www.aquamoss.net/Articles/Sia...uatic-Moss.htm