How do you get rid of hair algae?

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Diogenesis

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I have 62watts worth of t5 HO on a 29. A few of the plants at the top of the water column are starting to get fuzzy. Last night I left the light on for too long, and when I woke up there were little algae hairs trailing off the fuzz. I think it's hair or beard algae. How do I get rid of it? I've already ordered a CO2 system just waiting for it to arrive, and I'm dosing every other day with a flourish excel.

Can anybody help?
 
Could you post a picture?
 
ummm maybe in a bit. It's like fuzzy green stuff on the distal aspects of my val. It's stayed off the driftwood, anacharis, and sword thus far.
 
You may just need something that grows fast that'll compete with the algae for nutrients. I had some of this algae in a tank but since I added some more plants the algae seems to be in check... there's a little still around that keeps coming back in very small patches, but it's not on a rampage like it was before.
 
Drop your water level to half. Triple dose Excel (based on the amount of water still in the tank...not total volume), leave for 10 minutes and top up. Problem solved.

Trust me :)
 
I would be careful dosing excel with the vals, it can melt them. You can manully remove most of it till your co2 is set up. The co2 should help to take care of it.
 
are you dosing ferts?
you should be using excel every day. and if you have a lot of plant mass you should consider using more excel than the bottle recomends
i would also cut down on your photo period untill co2 is set up.

if you put some mollies in there and dont feed them they will eat just about any kind of algae you have except gda, gsa, and bba
 
I've got a timer I just haven't figured out how to set it up yet. i have a timer built into my power strip. I am starting to think about tearing out the val. It's not growing very well. The anacharis has tripled in height in two weeks. The val was the first thing I planted and it's not doing all that great, and now it's growing algae.
 
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