anyone have ideas how to kill off hair algae?

its really bothering me alot.

hello guys,

i am still new in aquascape, planning to buy red cherry shrimp for my tank. may i know where can i get around KL area?

Hi,newbie here .i jz start my tank within a month.
Those algae starts appear last two week ago,I'm using toothbrush reomove them last week .
Within 3days they appear again.

Any solution for this algae?
Is tat green brush algae?
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I am battling with green hair algae everyday. Lol. Its everywhere and, like urself, been using my old toothbrush to pull it out of my tank

Oh, no wonder its nicer. Mine is around 80 cents per shrimp. Haha! Hmm.. I've read that color/ rainbow shrimps eat shrimplets. Is it true?

Anyway, I manage to manually remove all the hair algae from the java ferns
Here's my tank without hair algae.. Else, so ugly with black clouds of bba. Had to use dark photo effect to lower glare.

light in case not suitable - around RM200 - RM300

substrates - around 100 per bag

ferts - not sure, depending on what type i guess, prepare rm100 i guess

plants - hehehe, this one is the interesting one. can be from RM10 to all the way up until RM500 and beyond   

Hey guys, this is my planted tank. Started with dry start method back in november last year, failed miserably. This is my 3rd rescape. Learned a lot each time my tank fails. 

tank size: 5 gallon tank fluval spec V
substrate: amazonia only, didnt cycle tank, didnt do anything just pour and go.
co2 pressurized
Chiller 200W peltier type to keep my tank 25C <--- needed to since my tank area is directly facing west, temperature fluctuate up to 32C whenever it's sunny time.
modified ei dosing, based on my whims. Still learning

Anyway the first pic was back in 8th Feb hair algae explosion, did a lot of noob mistakes and made things worse.

23th Feb Decided to use anti algae medicament, kill them all first then plant new plants to stabilize the tank, lastly will stop the anti algae.

Last pic is 19th March, a week after major water change, algae medication stopped 1 week before water change. surprisingly once the tank stabilize algae did not bloom again. I got occasional hair algae after subsequent water change but not severe, added 2 amano shrimp last week which cleared every hair algae in the tank. I think i won the algae war. lol

i dont think thats apple snail

if i were u, i'll remove any snail from the tank

once they start to reproduce, you will go crazy

looks like baby apple snail, but im not sure

ok, thks for the info guys... gonna redo my tank anyways... hard for me to dispose it coz it now looks cute more like a ladybird... lol...

Hi terrie,

May I ask where did you top up your CO2? I'm also looking for other places to top up.

Also, what plants are you interested in? I'm not interested in trading, but I usually give away my excess. Just PM me.

I also will have many PRL shrimps soon (A/S grade and also Hinomaru/No Entry) - many babies now (from 2mm to 1cm) as one time 4 were berried. If anyone interested to pick up PRL (CRS) shrimps, just PM me. These are not free though.

Rm 12 is for how many liter?? Tq