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JohnnySquids
06/04/2011, 04:49 AM
took some pics, i had recently broken my ankle and spent about 10 days in the hospital and an additional week or 2 laid up in my room. i had my freinds n mother feed the fish once a day like normal. no water changes were done in about 2 weeks. its been about 6 weeks since this all happened and i thought the phosphates were just high and it would go away if i resume regular water change routines. it has not, im also cleaning my glass once every 4 days now as opposed to once every 2-3 weeks.... look at my gsp, the green stuff is even on there and its stressing it so bad parts of it wont open... how can i get rid of this stuff? is it green hair?? is it something else???

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/718/green1b.jpg/
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/195/green2o.jpg/
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/812/green3h.jpg/\

thx for the help gents..

James983
06/04/2011, 05:53 AM
Looks like hair algea to me. I would start doing water changes, removing as much algea as possible each time. Throw in some Turbo snails as well. They will not eat the long strands, which is why you want to siphon the heavy stuff with water changes.

Once you have hair algea it is difficult to remove completely even when your PO4 is undetectable, but with proper attention it can be done.

JohnnySquids
06/04/2011, 06:06 AM
so just frequent changes and cleaning should do it???

JohnnySquids
06/04/2011, 06:11 AM
how about starving it out??? should i feed half as much for a while??? or mybe cut a few hours of light??

Lynnmw1208
06/04/2011, 08:33 AM
It doesn't look like hair algae to me. It just looks like a film algae. turn the lights off for 3 days, it should help.

This is what hair algae looks like...
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_q5zxJxS9jm4/TZp7ra1m_iI/AAAAAAAAFLk/GgXRGgn4Aac/s800/DSC_0161.JPG

JohnnySquids
06/04/2011, 08:45 AM
mine loooks nothing like that... u sure 3 days wont hurt the corals??

JohnnySquids
06/04/2011, 08:48 AM
i looked up "Film algae" and thats exactly what i have lol

Lynnmw1208
06/04/2011, 08:58 AM
mine loooks nothing like that... u sure 3 days wont hurt the corals??

no there are people who put poster boards on the outside of the tank so absolutely no light gets through. the corals should be ok for a couple days with no light.

JohnnySquids
06/04/2011, 09:26 AM
thank u im ganna try that. =D