Hair Algea Vac

[Covey]

Now that I have declared open war fare on my hair algae I decide to really give it hell. Reefer madness STILL hasn't sent me my Sea Hare (3 weeks). Those guys are suppose to be real hair algae eating machine and if it ever gets here I am looking froward to it. Some people have said that they don't know why some people consider hair algae a problem. Here is why. For a brainless plant it is pretty cunning. At some point the algae starts winning. Algae grows=>traps detris=>more algae grows=>more detris. It is a visous cycle. Clumps of it float around the tank clogging equipment. It clogs my skimmer so I come home to realize that the skimmer has not been do anything all day. That is a problem. Well anyway I need to get rid of this crap. I ran the hose from the main tank to the sump started a siphon. I then rigged up the hose with two old filter bags and rubberbanded it to the end of the hose. This ended up working real good because the return pump would pump the water back into the main tank and I could siphon for as long as I wanted. After about 45 min check out my handy work.
Before

[Covey]

After

[Covey]

After 45 min check out all this algae! I was like a pound.

[Covey]

I kinda of got a bear paw so I thought i would give so reference to how big the klump of algae is.

[Covey]

I knocked down all the big fluffy stuff so maybe my snails might take a run at it now.

[somethingfishy]

I feel for you I have been battling the same problem in my 50. I have been very busy lately so my maintence has been the best. I liked the Idea of filtering your water and reusing it.

[Covey]

I was sucking little bits of it out with my water changes but had to come up with a way of working on it longer.