bubble algae "help me get rid of it for good"

mrpet

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i have tried and tried its getting worse. tank is a 180 all sps and clams some zoos and ricordia. i have 4 emerald crabs in the tank and nada i pop them and it gets worse. how the hell do i get rid of this crap...no other algae problems. any help would be great
thanks scott
 
My last tank was the same. Don't pop them, from what i have heard. I had emeralds too, and they were lazy i guess, they did nothing. My friend said it will go away but it never did. So i hope someone can chime in here and give some good advice.

JD
 
ya i was told not to pop them as well but the hell with it got sick of it and started to pop um.someone out there must have luck getting rid of it anyone else?

scott
 
Over a year ago, we couldn't control ours either - picking them out with tweezers didn't work - they only spread. After they were in spots on most of the rocks, we bought a Naso Tang... and believe it or not, in 24 hrs ALL of it was gone!!! We see a few every now and then, but Naso keeps them in control. Good luck.
 
hmmmm maybe i will get rid of my yellow tang and try a blonde naso much nicer fish anyway how large was ur naso?
thanks scott
 
Glad the info was helpful. Naso was about 5" when we bought him over a year ago and now he is 8" and much wider. He is a good, friendly fish, but actually getting too big for our 90 gal. tank. I think 125 gal is the min recommended and now we know why (lots of waste generated by him - he is an eating machine). We just set up a refug with lots of plants to help consume the extra nutrients. But he sure took care of the bubble algae problem! Good luck!
 
already have 4 tangs will get rid of the yellow try a blonde naso
tank is large 180 so should be cool thanks scott
 
I was going to buy a sailfin, so Naso's definitely eat valonia? How about hair algae? I know I can fit a sailfin for bubble and a yellow for hair in my tank, but no room for another with a naso.
 
I just went to our local reefers meeting and they were saying the best thing for bubble algae is the rabbitfish. Just wanted to let ya'll what i just learned.

JD
 
Be carefull with Rabbitfish though if you have corals - from what I have read, they aren't totally reef safe. Plus their spines are venomous, but that may not matter to most people.
 
bashduo said:
Glad the info was helpful. Naso was about 5" when we bought him over a year ago and now he is 8" and much wider. He is a good, friendly fish, but actually getting too big for our 90 gal. tank. I think 125 gal is the min recommended and now we know why (lots of waste generated by him - he is an eating machine). We just set up a refug with lots of plants to help consume the extra nutrients. But he sure took care of the bubble algae problem! Good luck!
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What kind of naso and what sex? My foxface doesn't touch the stuff. I might stop feeding it nori for a while just to see if he develops an interest in the bubble algae. I just added two emeralds to see if they would go for it. If neither approach succeeds, then maybe I might try the naso approach. Or maybe I could buy yours? ;-)

I hear that the Desjardini Sailfin Tang also eats the stuff but it actually might grow to be even bigger than a naso!
 
that's the problem - how do you let them get hungry? They find the fish food that the fish miss so it makes it kinda difficult.
 
Joel,
I should have put this in the first email, sorry about that. Our Naso Tang is Naso literatus, orange spined unicorn fish. I don't know the sex though. If you want to see a picture of our Naso, you can go to one of the albums in our website (Aquarium Fish & Creatures) http://community.webshots.com/user/bashduo

We tried the emerald crabs and didn't have any significant luck. Naso was the only trick for us. :-)
 
Emeralds didn't help me much either, but a yellow tang did. Actually I didn't see it any, but they just disappeared almost completly since the tang showed up.

M.
 
I had the same problem and noticed a couple of things. Both my phosphate and nitrate levels had risen. I immediately added some Phosban, intesified the light over my refugium and cut back on the feedings to the tank. Within the course of 2 weeks my nitrates and phosphates were gone (at least, what I could detect of both with salifert kits) and the Valonia started dissapearing nicely. I do have a bubble here and there remaining but, they are tiny, not growing and out of direct eyesight.

BTW, I do have a Yellow Tang, Foxface and Eibli Mimic Tang in my tank. I did notice that once I cut back on the feedings, that they began to do a beter job at cleaning the rocks, glass and substrate (The Eibli was the ony one to pick up substrate).

Good luck
 
I had a small battle with the bubbles onece ,then I added the refugium ,cut back on feedings ,started doing more frequent water changes and added mexican hermit crabs that are tuff little s.o.b's that left my tank sparkleing clean.I agree don't pop the bubbles "that's how It spreads" I've heard
 
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