[Dazedman00]

I had a really bad problem with hair algea myself. I tried adding tons of reb legs, scarlets, and blue leg hermits (about 100), 20 turbos and 10 asteral(spelling?) snails. I also started using phoshate removers and tons of water changes. Little did I know I forgot to test my water from my tap. Well it was my source of Phosphates and probably a ton others. So I stoped using my tap water and now buy water from my LFS. I also added a new wet/dry filter. My nitrates where never high but the algea was probably using it. The hair algea has been cut in half and seems to get less and less every week. This battle has been going on for at least 3 months, maybe more. I also now only have about 20-30 hermits left and all the snails have died. I had some gorilla crabs that found the snails yummy. They have been removed except for 1 that I can not get.