Bubble Eating Reef Fish

[Hendogg0]

Sorry forgot to add algae after bubble. A friend has tons of bubble algae anyone have any suggestions on fish to eat them?

 

[Fish_Kid99]

Emerald crabs. I know they aren't fish but there are good at eating it.

 

[Hendogg0]

yeah I know there emeralds eat them but my friends tank is crazy with bubble its nuts I try to post a picture but wanted to throw something that will eat them faster. I know there are some just don't remember what they are.

 

[hybrid]

red sea desjardini tang will eat the bubble algae way better then an emerald crab

 

[Dmorty217]

I would look at tangs more so then emerald crabs, sounds like you would need a lot of crabs to eat the bubble algae from your description. Also some angels and a fox face might eat it

 

[leveldrummer]

manually remove the bulk, everyone says not to pop them, and they are right, but if your already infested, then its not really going to get much worse. get a pick or a set of tweezers and try to remove as many as you can reach by hand without popping, if you pop a few, dont freak out and just keep moving, then do a large water change and vacuum out all the loose bubbles, do this a few weeks in a row till you have most of them gone. then get a natural animal to keep the rest in check.

 

[sreefs]

What size tank? As said a desjardini tang does a great job with bubble algae but you need a very large tank.

 

[Hendogg0]

 

[Hendogg0]

110g leemar cube there is tons of hair and bubble it looks a lot better after doing some work on it yesterday. ill take some pics tonight and post them.

 

[Dmorty217]

Seems that you have a abundance of nutrients in your tank to cause all of that algae. You need to figure that out as well as something to eat it

 

[NewbyReefer]

I would run Heavy GFO and cut back on food and light. IMO

 

[Hendogg0]

yeah I found out his ro system was reading the tds but they were way off cuz there wasn't enough pressure running through it. I told him to cut the lights and replace the filters on the ro system. Im heading to his place after work go give him some gfo.

 

[schatzi]

a fox face will eat the algae and keep it cleaned out.