ideas on getting rid of brown hair algae?

Hermits. I washed n baked the rocks i could take out, and got hermits for fun, but they ate the hair algae in one day that was left..

I've seen diatoms make "brown hair" as well. I can't tell from the picture what kind of algae this is, exactly, but the usual things to get rid of algae apply. These are in no particular order:

1) lower nutrients using chaeto, a skimmer, phosguard, GFO, sugar, vodka, whatever.

2) black out the lights for a couple days, depending on what corals you have in the tank and what you can get away with.

3) clean-up crew; buy one from Reefcleaners or anywhere else. But mostly Reefcleaners.

4) Water changes using water that you KNOW has no nutrients in it.

5) Hand removal; washing rocks, etc.

are u sure this is a brown hair algae? It looks somewhat similar to a slime algae problem i had. A really easy solution was to get a tooth brush and brush the rocks as they are in the tank. After that let your filter polish the water and clean your filter.

thanks for the info.. i just cleaned my rocks with a soft brush and cleaned my filter and added new chemi pure elite so hopefully that will solve it.. if not the tanks going dark for 2 days