After everything we’ve done to the tank and being on the verge of giving up, there might be a light at the end of the tunnel. Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen a vast reduction in the amount of hair algae in the tank. About a month ago I was ready to give up and tear the tank down to start over again around Christmas time. Last week Mellina asked if she could scrub some more of the hair algae out of the tank since she hated looking at it. So, just like before, I put some fiber material at the entrance to each pump and gave her a toothbrush to start the task. She scrubbed and I used a net to catch the larger floating particles, the rest got caught in the fiber material. So we looked at the tank last night and amazingly, there seems to be very little hair algae remaining. It seems (and I hold my breath when saying this) that over the last few months, all of the things we tried are finally paying off. Our fingers are crossed but we are somewhat optimistic that we have the problem cured.

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