Hair Algea

[axl]

Hi,
just noticed that im starting to get hair alhea growing on the edge of my leaves in my tank, im running co2 at the moment and want to no what is the best way to get rid of it. ie do a blackout for 2 days or what is people opinions
cheers axl

[Merrilyn]

A small army of bristlenose catfish will do a wonderful job. That stuff is soooo hard to get rid of once it is established in a tank.

[duck]

Are you sure it's Hair algae the chance's are it's Black Brush Algea.
I bet your nitrates are very close to Zero.

If you really want to get rid of it crank the CO2 to aleast 30pmm and keep the nitrate's around the 10-20 ppm.

You could do a black out and add BN and put algeacicdes to get rid of it,Unless you Address why you have it in the first place it will always come back.

[nature]

I think u might want to try True siamese, they will clean the hairlike algae like a vacuum :)... bristlenose will be a bit too rough on the plants
Hope this help