[mlundstrom]

I am starting to get hair alge growing in my 55g and am looking for something that will help me keep it cropped back. I know it is there do to a nutrient export problem and I am working on that. For now I want to know what will eat it? Emerald crab, lawnmower blenny,...? This is a fish tank w/ mushrooms and some zooanthids, and it has a healthy crop of grape caulerpa. Thanks for any ideas.

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Mike

The Oceans of the World are our inheritance to protect for all time.
- Jacques Cousteau

[the_blue_tuna]

Maybe a Bi-color Blenny will do the trick for you.You can always go in and pull it out . This IMO is a better way to go as hair algae is usually temporary and once it is gone you have a fish that still needs feeding and many times it was aquired just to get rid of algae , not really because you wanted that particular fish.Just a thought.

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In this hobby patience is not a virtue,,,,,its mandatory.
Jim's Marine Links

[nucleuscracker]

my mirathrax crabs (sp?) and turbo snails from ff express have been chowing down likes there no tomorrow on my hair algae. From the time i put them in saturday till now, you would never know i had mullets growing in my tank....



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if all else fails, don't bother reading the directions.

[organicreefer]

tom green..also hermits , some tangs,lawnmower blennie,crabs(sallylightfoot is an ecxellent grazer when small)to name a few

(fwiw tom green only eats hair in the presence of vasaline)

[This message has been edited by organicreefer (edited 05-30-2001).]

[MayerKT]

I bought some hermits when I had this problem a couple years ago. It was a mix of a couple scarlet and blue-legged. They definitely did the job!

Karin [img]/ubb/biggrin.gif[/img]