Battling Algae with Inverts

[yeldarbj]

I had to remove my foxface rabbitfish a couple months ago because it developed a taste for some corals. Since then, I've developed a small algae problem on my live rock, mostly a couple varieties of red algae and a few spots of green bubble algae. I probably had this algae before but the foxface was keeping it all in check and it was not noticeable.

I've got a cleanup crew consisting of about a dozen scarlet reef hermits, ~20 astraea snails, a few cerith and nerite snails, a large serpent star, and an emerald crab. The tank is 65g, 0 nitrates, 0 phosphates tested with Salifert kits.

I don't want to add another fish so I want to use additional cleaners to help battle the algae. I was thinking of adding:

Mexican Turbo Snails
Tuxedo Urchin
More Emerald Crabs

What other invert suggestions do you have?

 

[Sepeku]

Urchins eat coralline and just about anything else they mow through. SO be careful.

I've had allot of luck with Nerite snails. Liveaquaria had a real good sale on them just recently.

 

[yeldarbj]

I read some about urchins eating coralline. Most of my liverock is totally encrusted in coralline, so I'm guessing I could give up some if it would also eat some of the other algaes.

Any comments from a tuxedo urchin owner?

 

[frederickk]

I would suggest to go with mexican turbo snails.

 

[StunnaShadez]

trochus and astreas wipe algae clean off my rocks

 

[JonnyD91]

tuxedo's are great. I dont have alot of coralline but i can see him mow through the hair algae. Id get two of them. Out of all the urchins these are the least destructive