Originally Posted by ATP

I hate hair algae. It took me about a year to remove them. I had some corals died because of the algae taking over them last spring. Now my tank looks much better

My yellow tang use to eat a lot, but he doesn't like the long ones

Some advice:
-Buy a skimmer that's suppose to be about three times the size of your tank.
-Buy turbo snails
-Do weekly water changes
-Remove them by hand weekly when you do water changes
-Buy a football sized cheato and throw it in your sump. It helps prevent it from growing.

Originally Posted by Oil_Fan

Dude...I'm way ahead of you. Already have a good skimmer and I've gone to wet skimming to the point where I have to empty the cup every day. I am doing weekly water changes of 20% along with removing the rock and scrubbing it in a bucket so the HA can't get back into the tank. I've had cheato for over a year now. I'm even running a algae scrubber that is slowly attracting the stuff. Added phosphate reactor and am now buffering my alk.

I am going to get more turbo snails to eat the stuff on Saturday. I just haven't time to run to the LFS lately.

The stuff I'm dealing is derbesia. This is some of the toughest HA out there. From what I've read, this stuff just laughs at lights out periods and normal algae fighting techniques. But I am determined to win this one. After all this is war!!