best eaters of hair alage

[leeks]

what is the best invert or fish to control hair alage.

 

[Unarce]

Bristletooth tangs, I think are the only ones in the trade known to eat hair algae. Best inverts would have to be dwarf hermits, IMO.

 

[Aff]

I've had really good luck with sally lightfoot crabs. Multiples in smaller tanks tend to fight tho.

 

[KanUCme]

the right handed hominoid and the left handed hominoid seem to work the best at removing hair algae... I have tried sally's, hermits, snails, urchins, and fish. I think that my pencil urchin used to mow down the most algae! He sometimes mistook my green star polyps for algae and needless to say he no longer lives in the tank... :roll: whatever you choose it only prolongs the inevitable, I need to get a RO/DI unit soon. There is a lot of phopshphate in my local water supply and that causes me lot's of hair. :evil:

 

[ZigZagZombie]

I agree.....Take the rocks out one by one, and scrub them in a bucket of your tank water. Do this when you do a water change. That is the way I beat it.

 

[Anonymous]

'red emerald' mithrax crabs did it for me.
they seem to handle it much better than greens.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

Nobody mentioned the 'Lawnmower' Blenny yet. {Salarius fasciatus}.

 

[Anonymous]

mexican turbos

 

[wade1]

My Bluespot Rabbitfish... it is the most voracious and clear-cutting animal I have ever seen in a tank.

I got him from a friend when my tank had a nasty case of sargassum on the rock.... it devoured an entire 150g tank's full of sargassum in just over a week (I was spending hours each day picking out algae and turning my fingers brown).

Its kept all nuisance algaes from appearing...

Just a note though... they get big. Mine is now 7" long and thick.

Wade

 

[Anonymous]

any pics wade?

 

[Anonymous]

I have head good luck with lettuce nudi's

 

[Anonymous]

Toothbrush tang works well

Louey

 

[ZigZagZombie]

I'd like to see that rabbitfish myself. Show us a pic, if you can....

 

[ChrisRD]

mexican turbos

Yup - as far as snails go, they've got my vote too...

 

[fungia]

copepods and amphipods

 

[Quigonsean]

Convicy Tang, they are the one tang that'll eat film alga as well. As for inverts blue leg hermits and mexican turbo snails.

Just my 2cents,
Sean

 

[wade1]

It appears my pics are unreachable atm. I'll try to take/find others.

Here's a pic of its head...

Wade

 

[wade1]

Another pic with the "fugly trout" (ie- bluespot rabbit) in it...

 

[Unarce]

You guys were right about the Mexican Turbos. I found some hair algae growing in my sump, and I through a couple in.

Needless to say, it's totally clean. Ole!