Need advice

[saltank]

The marcro algae in my 46gal bf is getting out of control again. My yellow tang did an incredible job keeping it in touch, UNTIL (previous post) it got sucked into a ph. Lived for a while but passed on about two months back.

What will eat this macro other than a yellow tang. For some reason they seem impossible to get now, their price has gone crazy, and I think the 46 MAY have been a little small; as well, the planned upgrage to a 72 is on indefinite hold (light fish load though, currently 1 clown and 2 damsels), about 50lbs of lr (1/2 of which is infested with this macro) and plenty of softies

This stuff is in the rocks, impossible to remove by hand anymore...I've read confllicting info about kole tangs (lfs says it will eat the macro as well as nuisance algae) - Looking for input here, QUICKLY losing the fight with this macro algae - will NEVER put a rock in again that has this stuff on it.

All advice welcome

Thanks!

 

[Anonymous]

Foxface!! Excellent fish. I never found a macro algae that mine wouldn't eat, including many things my sailfin wouldn't touch.

 

[saltank]

Any other thoughts on the matter?

Thanks again :wink:

 

[SnowManSnow]

I think foxfaces will pick at certain corals won't they..? LIke say zoas and so forth? I'd love one, but can't cause of my other coral livestock.

B

 

[Anonymous]

It's been my experience that foxfaces are as safe as any tang. Actually, I would trust one before I trusted a tang to be reef safe. Mine never once picked at a coral.

I will say though, that my hippo tang is a confirmed coral eater. He eats zoanthids, leather corals, and fleshy lps corals. He is horrible. You just can never tell with 100% certainty what a fish will do in an aquarium, but I have found foxfaces to be great reef fish and good consumers of macro algae. As always, YMMV!

 

[SnowManSnow]

hmmm maybe i need a foxface then is a 65g cube too small though?

B

 

[SnowManSnow]

oh... dont let anyone here see that you had a tang in a 46 gallon haha

b

 

[Anonymous]

I can hear the sirens of the tang police crancking up now.