My first Zoa frag....in fact my first coral!

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here is a before and after. The first pic is when I first put him in and the second is about 15 mins later.
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Nice choice! Pick off that hair algae, before it gets out of hand.
 
How do I da that? I was gonna wait to get some advice.
 
Tweezers? Fingers...should work no matter what.

As long as tanks are in order it should be too bad.
 
Ive got blue-legs, nassarius and cerinth snails. A linear blenny and an emerald crab. Will they work on it? Will touching it, mess with it?
 
I pick hair algae off rock near corals all the time. Worse thing would be the algae choking out the coral.
 
I dont ever have issues with hair algae. Most of those should deal with it, but if I can help it, I dont put it into my tank.

Just remove it. No worries.
 
If your water parameters are good you will never have a problem with hair algea... if you think your parms are good because your readings are "zero" but have algea problems then it is the result of bad parms being hidden by the algea using the bad stuff as its created so it "seems to be good". Just for future reference lol.
 
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