whats a good hair algae eater thats reef safe and not a tang

[Lazyreefer1]

My hair algae killed my grape looking calerpa, no s h i t. It started growing around it and smothered it in 1 week. So after months and months with hair algae. I have 1 solutions. Either take all live rock out of tank and scrub very well under HOT water. Or take live rock about 10% at a time and throw it in your yard for 2 days. After 2 days in your yard (summer time works best) I promise you NO MORE evil green slime algae :twisted:

BTW, if growing on walls scrape it off and floating algae will get suck up by powerheads. Just clean them out more often.

 

[KMTaquarium]

removing the caulerpa was a bad idea, ihad a horrible outbreak of hair algae and cyanobacteria, the worst, and a type of algae that grows in mats, it might be a diff. type of cyano. and i have hair algae probs again, atleast the caulerpa grew in a stringlike manner so it was easier to remove(unlike hair algae), i will prob set up a refugium or something. and keep hte caulerpa and other macroalgae in there.

 

[KMTaquarium]

Dr. Reef,

what would you say would be the best fish to put in prop. syst. since you know the details of how it is/will be set up.

blenny,
6 line wrasse or dragonet after a couple months.

i will put 2-4 pepermints shrimps in each tank

what kind of snails?(turbo, astrea, margarita, cortez cerith, bumblebee?)

 

[Anonymous]

dragonets and 6-lines tend to eat up all the cool little pods and creepy crawlies so maybe no fish at all is your best choice. This means you don't have to add food, worry about nitrates, etc. I mean, it isn't going to be a show tank after all right? Just a frag growout tank so I would advise against fish.

Snails are useful for cleaning glass, but, again, this isn't a show tank, and the more algae that grows on the glass, the less that grows on the rocks, etc. Snails usually get their fill, then die in my experience.

Hermits, no need.

I would just get it running with lots of live sand and live rock and when cycled, stick to the frags while the bio load adjusts.