Grey hair algae? HALP

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First, buy a syringe or something similar and a bottle of seachem flourish Excel...

Fill the syringe with the recommended dose for your tank size and slowly squeeze the excel directly over the algae areas and after a few days of repeating this, the algae will die off...


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You can also kill the algae with hydrogen peroxide dosed with a syringe. Grammarus (scuds) eat black beard algae, but your fish will eat the scuds.
 
The Excel and peroxide will be fine with the fish. But both of these methods are a temporary fix. You need to find out the source of the problem and fix it. Hair algae is usually from too long of a photo period.
 
fishbum said:
The Excel and peroxide will be fine with the fish. But both of these methods are a temporary fix. You need to find out the source of the problem and fix it. Hair algae is usually from too long of a photo period.
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Photo period? What is that? I think im having the same problem. I just cleaned my tank, took out my drift wood an scrubbed off all the long haired algae. 3 day later it started to grow back.


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Photo period is the amount of light that the tank receives. Depending on what types of plants you have will dictate how long you should be leaving your lights on for. Algae can also be caused by excess nutrients, poor light spectrum, or just because there are algae spores in the tank and they love growing anywhere plants aren't.
 
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