Chem Marine - Stop Hair Algae

[gummi]

http://www.jlaquatics.com/images/chem_marin/stop_hairalgae.jpg

Has anyone used this stuff? Hear that it works great.

[SHOmuchFUN]

Never heard of it.

[nah2orocks!]

Saw it at the lfs. Didn't know if it was worth a try.

[dc3]

Google tells me that Chem-Marine seems to have solutions for most of our problems, like "Stop Hair Algae" - " Stop Aiptasia" -"Stop Parasites" .

Draw your own conclusions.

dc3

[crvz]

That reminds me of a quote;

"Alcohol; the cause and solution to almost all of life's little problems."

I wouldnt waste my money.

[gummi]

I think it is a band-aid approach but have heard great success with it. Also, when you buy the product you get unlimited support from the doctor who invented it...

I run 0 TDS RO/DI water, change 10% water a week, weekly SSB vacuum, have 135lbs of live rock in my 65g tank, a sump with refugium, chaeto and macto algea, a good skimmer (ER-RS100), limited lighting period, a nitrate reactor, 37X water volume water turnover, no corals and a fairly acceptable bioload and I still can't get my nitrates to 0.... which could be the only possible thing fuelling my hair algae that bloomed a few months ago...

Phosphates are 0.

[mg426]

If you have HA you have Phosphates. It is bound up in the structure of the HA making it undetectable for your PO4 kit.

[Bambalam]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13177435#post13177435 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by mg426
If you have HA you have Phosphates. It is bound up in the structure of the HA making it undetectable for your PO4 kit.

+1

[paytonv]

My experience to stopping a bad GHA outbreak which was really successful was using a cleanup crew to finally rid ALL GHA. I have a 24 gallon (I know my tank size is smaller but will work). I had a really bad outbreak and after researching, I decided the natural way. I used the following cleanup crew:

:10 various hermits (didn't touch GHA)
:Small Sea hare (GHA eating machine)
:Small Blue Tuxedo urchin (also a machine)
:Small Sally Lightfoot crab (Didn't ealt long strands but really cleaned up on smaller strands)
:Emerald crab (did nothing)

I no longer have any GHA in my tank and now have to supplement nori to feed these guys. I will be getting rid of my small sea hare b/c of my small tank size.

[gummi]

Yeah, I'm looking for a sea hare actually. But I hear that they are really hit or miss. And if they die they will poison your tank...

[maynardjames]

i have used . didn`t do much for my problem. i wouldn`t buy again. i just worked on reducing nitrates & phos. went away on its own also pulled out as much as i could my 2 cents

[HideMe]

It worked for me. I took a rock out of my display and placed it in a bucket of saltwater. I treated the rock with the product, left it there a good while, gave it a shake in the bucket, then returned it to my display. Took a while to do it this way but my hair algae was so bad I didn't want to cover all the rocks with the stuff, just to watch it get blown away from the current of the water (didn't want to leave my circulation pumps off for an extended period, either). I found the longer I could leave it on the rock, the more effective it was. Best of luck to you!

[gummi]

I think i'll try running a phosban reactor first.... right now i just have it in a 100 micron media bag that probably isn't doing anything. If this doesn't work I'll just use the reactor for carbon or nitrate sponge and see the effects...