Pull the hair algae out. Hemostats are great for
this. Then the remainder hair algae, use a tooth
brush to keep it down. Use the tooth brush by
quickly moving it in a side to side motion, like
your trying to blow the hair algae off.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets


George Patterson wrote on 5/14/2007 8:42 PM:
KurtG wrote:
My diatoms are back. I replaced the material in my phosphate reactor
which knocked them back for a few days, but they rebounded again. My
nitrates and phosphates are both undetectable.

Well, my nitrates test at 0 and my phosphates are at the bottom of the
scale, but I've still got a tank full of hair algae. I'm thinking that
things like diatoms and algae that eat nitrates and phosphates must keep
the levels low (by eating them up). I've been using PhosBan and have
some RowaPhos ordered, but I'm almost ready to give up.

George Patterson
If you torture the data long enough, eventually it will confess
to anything.