I decided to go ahead and start a thread for my tank.
I've been battling an ongoing hair algae problem for a number of months. Typically I just go in and pull it out by hand. Well, after the chat last night...Gwen suggested to me that I pull the rocks and scrub the HA off.
So, that is what I've been doing today. With this, I decided to try something a bit different with my aquascaping when I put everything back in. I split up a few rocks and actually picked up one other dead one off the shelf.
So here goes the pictures....
Here is the tank right before I started to remove rocks. You can see all the HA.
Here is the tank after I removed some of the rock and placed some in the tub.
Here is the tub with some rock. I used a toothbrush and a tile brush to scrub with.
Here is the tank with some of the rock back in after scrubbing. It's real cloudy as I decided to add just a little more LS in some areas....it was a bit thin toward the middle and back.
And, here's a pic of everything back in....and somewhat arranged. We'll see how this works.
I can see some HA left on a few rocks, so it looks like I'll have to scrub one a little more. but with any luck it'll just die. With all of this, I ended up doing around a 20% water change.
I'll post another pic either late tonight or tomorrow once it's cleared up and no longer cloudy.
