My name is Joe and I am new to the reef aquarium world. I have a 12 gal. Aquapod nano tank that I bought with live rock and one piece of coral. I will be asking a lot of questions as time goes on. My first is how get rid of hair algae, I do not have a lot, but I heard its not good for the coral. Looking forward to being part of this club. Any help is appreciated. Thanks
Hi all From Framingham
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Turbosnail
Non-member
Welcome to the BRS.For the hair algae get some turbo snails or a seahair or even an arrow crab.Check your water perimeters mostly phosphates and nitrates as these will feed the algae.HTH
Cherokee_Dude
Non-member
Hey Zeeman,
Welcome to BRS! How long has your tank been running? And what kind of filtration/water movement do you have?
Welcome to BRS! How long has your tank been running? And what kind of filtration/water movement do you have?
JasonandRay
Non-member
Hey, am in Framingham too
nichols
Non-member
Hi Joe
:w to the club. Would help to have some additional info about your tank.
What do you have for lighting and how old are the bulbs?
Tank parameters ( calcium, alk, ph, mag and phosphate) Most LFS will check your water for little or no money.
That said, if you can take the rock our just scrub it with a toothbrush.
:w to the club. Would help to have some additional info about your tank.
What do you have for lighting and how old are the bulbs?
Tank parameters ( calcium, alk, ph, mag and phosphate) Most LFS will check your water for little or no money.
That said, if you can take the rock our just scrub it with a toothbrush.
nichols
Non-member
A sea hare in a 12 gal tank would die in short order and probably pollute the tank in the process. They are toxic.
Turbosnail
Non-member
My bad I did not notice it was only 12g sorry.
Thanks for all the help . My tank has 1 -27w dual artnic light, 1 -27w dual daylight and 2 led lunar lights, they are all a year or so old (maybe time to change them). I took the water to Tropic isle Aquarium for testing and it all the levels seem to be ok. I plan on doing a 2 gal water change this weekend. When I was at the LFS I did buy some tiny crabs to eat the algae, however the toothbrush method seems like the way to go. Do you think I should go with higher wattage bulbs (like 32w) I would like to keep the present hood, so I can't go any larger then 12 1/2" long. Thanks again for your help.
JasonandRay
Non-member
youd need a new balast if you get the 32 watts? is there even a 32 watt?
CrazyCorals
Well-Known Member
welcome
