[killian]

I'm sure this topic has come up before but I'm posting it again. We have a serious hair algae problem in our 55 gallon tank. It's inhabitants include 1 scotter blenney, 1 golden tail pigmy angel, 1 red corsis (sp) wrasse, 1 very large lyre tail wrasse, 1 cleaner wrasse, 2 watchmen gobies and 1 pseudocromis oh a 1 red-lip blenney. We use to have red and blue leg hermits but the lyre-tail wrasse made short order of them. Short of getting rid of my wrasses' and getting more crabs what can we do to get rid of the algae? Are there chemicals or fish that will eat the algae? Suggestions PLEASE!!

[the_blue_tuna]

Sounds like you have some po4 problems and with that load, nitrate problems also. What kind of water do you use- tap , ro , ro-di ?Getting rid of your crab eating wrasse may be a double blessing. First it would lower the load on the tank and it would also allow you to keep the crabs. Whatever you decide , first thing is to go into the tank and manually remove as much as possible. Do some water tests to see where you stand and then treat the tank accordingly. You should be able to control the algae without adding chemicals. The page in my sig has several articles on algae and how to control it.HTH.

[midnighttoker]

Tangs feeds on hair algae, if you wish to add a few.