algea eating fish?

[itw419]

is there a small fish for a nano that eats algea? i know tangs and angles do but they wont help me.

 

[siren]

lawnmower blenny

 

[jpeggerling]

Tangs! They do a pretty good job.

 

[nc2tarheels]

i too am curious. Lawnmower blennys are just so ugly though. Any others??

 

[siren]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8430150#post8430150 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jpeggerling
Tangs! They do a pretty good job.

yeah but tangs need more room to swim than a nano can support

 

[jpeggerling]

Sorry ,I should read before I replied. I gess you know tangs work!

 

[siren]

perhaps a cherub pigmy angel fish. You can get them at about 3/4" - 1" and they only get up to about 2" so a nano about 20 gallons could hold it easy. I've had mine for about 7 months now, and it eats more algea than my sailfin tang does. But it's in a 72gal, so who knows.

 

[Illuminati]

What kind of algae?

Don't court jester (rainford) goby's eat hair algae?

 

[itw419]

hair algae is what i am concerned about. pygmy angels wont work because they eat coral. a court jester could work. any thing else?

 

[Illuminati]

Just some threads on the rainfordi goby, I bet it would work for you

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=882588&highlight=court+jester+goby+algae

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=827030&highlight=court+jester+goby+algae

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=773547&highlight=court+jester+goby+algae

 

[siren]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8430351#post8430351 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by itw419
hair algae is what i am concerned about. pygmy angels wont work because they eat coral. a court jester could work. any thing else?

mine has NEVER eaten a single coral

 

[Scott523]

If you acclimate a Molly to saltwater it wille at the algae

 

[Jordan55]

Court Jesters (Rainford) Gobies usually sift sand. So if the hair algae is on the sand, it might work, but I had one in my old 55 and he never once picked at the rocks for food.

Why not try inverts?

 

[waterfaller1]

I would suggest that you figure out why you have HA instead of adding another fish. What are your parameters? particularly PO4, PH, Alk, and Nitrates? How big is your clean up crew, how often are you doing water changes, are you using RO/DI water w/ 0 TDS, how many fish are in the tank, how often and how much are you feeding? Answering these Q's may give some insight to why there is a problem to begin with.

 

[itw419]

i just tested my water this morning and the quality is great. phosphates amonia and nitrates are 0. i just added phosban about a week ago so maybe in time the algae will go away. i was mostly just curious to which small fish graze on algea in a reef tank.