Bubble algae

[Anonymous]

I managed to introduce bubble algae from my tank at work to my one at home, and it is getting out of hand. I tried an emerald crab but it preferred to eat coral. Any other options? I have a good skimmer and copious macroalgal growth, and AFAIK not a lot of excess nutrients.

 

[Anonymous]

They are not too bad to remove by hand. Give them to your kids, and tell them they are sailor's eyeballs

 

[Anonymous]

I know, but I hate sticking my hands in the tank. It gets my armpit hair wet, and then I can't do a thing with it.

 

[Anonymous]

Have you tested the water for phos and nitrates lately? You may have more than you think. I hate that damn valonia, the only way I've gotten rid of it is to starve it out by competition with toms of macro. One thing you can do is a "detrious storm" in the main tank by blasting water into crevices where the stuff settles and then if you have a sump ivacuum it and get out any gack that has settled. Get that crap into suspension and out of the tank.

 

[Len]

Try other emerald crabs. Mithrax scuptus has always worked for me ... to the point that Valonia isn't much of a scare for me anymore. Maybe I've been lucky

 

[Anonymous]

I beat it once with a combination of emerald crabs and harvesting by hand. It took a few weeks, but once gone never came back.

 

[Anonymous]

Emerald crabs always worked for me.

 

[Anonymous]

Try Drano.

Seriously. :wink:

 

[Anonymous]

Scrub it off and run a canister filter or net it up to get off the majority of it. Diadema and tuxedo urchins and rabbitfish should whittle it down to nothing. I don't like Mithrax crabs when they get big.