Your best solutions to eliminate green hair algae .

[JazzChing]

What is your best way to get rid of green hair algae without using any chemical.

 

[drewwCh]

Reducing nitrates and phosphates, scrubbing the rocks where GHA has grown, and adding a lot of snails has worked wonders for me.

 

[Waters]

Manual removal and keeping nutrients in check........also a nice CUC including fish and inverts.

 

[G Santana]

Reducing nitrates and phosphates, scrubbing the rocks where GHA has grown, and adding a lot of snails has worked wonders for me.

These are all your non bottled options lol

 

[BCSreef]

Tangs, hermits, emeralds, snails, Asterina stars, NO3 and PO4 ion check

 

[Rollman]

Patience and husbandry

 

[slicermd]

Patience and husbandry

That is true, yet unhelpful to the new reefer. What are the elements of husbandry that should be attended to?

 

[SaltwaterandLime]

Feed less, more frequent water changes, manual removal of as much of it as possible. If you don't have coral yet, remove rocks one at a time and scrub with a little bit of peroxide, add more CUC, and accept the fact that you will probably always have at least a small amount no matter what you do.

 

[jt8791]

Cut the red and green lights off, turn whites down. Worst case add a pincushion urchin, turbo snails seem to help too. Not sure what else helps, other than manual removal followed by a water change. Just don’t overdo it and trade gha for dinos. A fuge seems to be handy to outcompete it too

 

[StewL6]

Lawnmower Blenny, Astrea Snails, Turbo Snails. Emerald Crabs just because I like them and they do eat hair algae plus other algae. In that order.

 

[clevebill71]

Use vibirant I had a major hair algae out break due to lack of care used half does and it was gone in days.might do water change after it clears up might get cyano from the algae die off

 

[MNFish]

I have recently started an algae scrubber 45 days and it seems to have stopped the spread outside of the scrubber at least inside the scrubber I am getting good gha growth as intended. Can't say yet it will stop it all together but so far the results are promising.

 

[DHill6]

Remove fish, corals, water, etc. to a brute. Rocks…peroxide. Glass in tank…peroxide and scrape. You end up with a clean tank. Yes, I’ve done this more than once.

 

[Pistondog]

What is your best way to get rid of green hair algae without using any chemical.

Foxface, tang, emerald crab, vibrant

 

[DrEggroll]

I am battling right now. I turned my red and green off. Turned my whites down. All my turbos kept dying, got rid of most of my hermit crabs. Added an urchin. Manually removing as much as I can. Turkey basting the rocks. Have a yellow eyed mole tang and yellow tang ordered awaiting quarantine. Chaeto and protein skimmer been running. My phosphates have been undetectable and nitrates 2-5. I think my algae has been sucking up the nitrates

 

[SteveMM62Reef]

Most Turbos are not a Tropical Water Snail. I can keep them in my Reef during the Winter, but during the Summer Switch them over to my Macro Grow out tank.

 

[Dburr1014]

I have noticed it started growing in my sump. I just manually removed it. All better.

 

[Marco9926]

ATS!!!!!! Fight algae with algae!!!!!!
It’s in Italian, but….check this!
ATS Acquario Marino UPDATE#3

 

[Mical]

I used Kent Tech M (It's Mag additive) Bumped my Mag up to 1800 and GHA dissolved within 2 weeks.

 

[shakacuz]

a mix of CUC does the job. keeping No3/Po4 in check as well. good refugium.