Hair algae in cheato

[Bengals888]

Hi,

I have a 2 gallon with an aquaclear 50 hob modded to hold cheato and led light.
The cheato is growing fine but has hair algae in it. Just leave it alone?

I would rather not disturb the cheato or dunk it in RODI since I have pods growing in the cheato.

I had massive amounts of hair algae in the tank but my tuxedo urchin cleaned house, he is back to eating nori.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Pull what you can out, toss a cerith snail or two in there with the chaeto.

 

[Flippers4pups]

Hi,

I have a 2 gallon with an aquaclear 50 hob modded to hold cheato and led light.
The cheato is growing fine but has hair algae in it. Just leave it alone?

I would rather not disturb the cheato or dunk it in RODI since I have pods growing in the cheato.

I had massive amounts of hair algae in the tank but my tuxedo urchin cleaned house, he is back to eating nori.

Id pull the chaetomorpha and place it in a bucket, scrape out the GHA. Put the chaetomorpha back.

 

[Bengals888]

Ok. Thanks.

 

[ncaldwell]

I've done fresh water dips on my cheato to remove hair algea. The hair algea dies back and it doesnt effect the cheato for me. I did it a couple times and the hair algea wasnt strong enough to compete

 

[Firemanreefkeeper]

I've got hair algae growing in my chaeto too. I just leave it be. If it's not in my display then I don't worry about it.