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How do you deal with hair algae? (pawb.social)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/aquariums

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I've been fighting it for awhile. Various nutrient levels, light levels, etc. Considering getting a nerite snail, but heard they can be a bit of an escape artist. Any tips?

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[–] Fades 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

First of all, you need to determine your triggers. These are likely too much light and/or too much nutrients. Is it a planted tank? One of the first things I did for this issue was to add more plants!

As for what you can do beyond triggers, a good clean up crew helps a lot. I don't have to worry much about any algae thanks to my team of mystery, nerite, rabbit snails in addition to some Hillstream Loaches and Siamese algae eaters.

I also use the twirl technique for longer strings of hair algae, easy clean up!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Thank you!