Need something to eat my Hair algae

Hey guys,

For the last 2 months, Ive been having a lil area in my tank that seems to like to grow a small tuft of green hair algae. It doesnt grow fast at all and seems to be just a small little area. I would be more concerned if it was spreading rapidly. However, what can you guys recommend that would eat my green hair algae? I have many many hermits and none of them will touch it, a coral beauty, a rainford goby, a clown goby, a royal gramma, engineering goby, and a cleaner shrimp.

Ive tried changing water current, lighting, water quality, and i still get a lil patch that never grows....I just want to know what would eat it and get along with everything else in the tank.

 

A 20 gallon tall will limit you from adding more fish. I used a lawn mower blenny who sweeped the whole tank nipping at any kinda green but you can't add another fish to that population. I know that emerald crabs do wonders for algae but they like to eat your shrimp. I have went through 4 now. Tangs will eat the green but with that population I would say try to pull the rock out and scrub it. Otherwis go for a temperary lawn mower blenny or Sea Hare and return it... that would only be temperary cuz it would grow back. You don't want to starve any algea eating creature out.
That is all I could contribute to the topic. I would try an emerald crab for a couple months (lay him right in the hair), then put a shrimp back in after yu take the crab back out.

 

Assuming your algae isn't bryopsis, you can just pull the longer strands off and then add snails to eat the shorter stuff. Not many animals will eat hair algae if it's very long.