ok here is the most recent pics of my tanks I need help with my hair algae and this other algae that I have no idea what it is but it's on all my rocks and it is brown.
here is a pic of my new fish too with some hair algae.
Hair Algae
? algae
Need help have to get all algae out by 2maro after noon.
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Your algae looks like hair, diatoms and cyano. Is this a fairly new tank, it's either new or has serious nutrient issues and there is no quick and easy fix, sad to say.
You have stored nutrients in your sand bed and or live rock. You have to limit how much food you add and work on getting rid of all the leftover food and fish waste. Check out the various threads running regarding ways to deal with the problem, but be aware there are no quick and easy fixes
Probably not to any significant degree, they can only eat so much and whatever they eat gets returned to the tank so the nutrients that feed the algae growth are still there. I am guessing that you started the tank with tap water and don,t want the fishies to go hungry.
Running a good skimmer as well as a phosban reactor will help but with the sand and rock loaded up it's going to be a long battle to bring the tank up to snuff.
As stated, you are going to have to remove the excess nutrients and this is going to take time. At a minimum you should be doing weekly water changes and vacuuming your sand bed during this process to get out as much of the detritus as possible. After a while things will start to turn around and you will definitely realize when you have reached that point.
