I am slowly starting to have a grape algee problem. I have read that you should carefully remove them, but i cant seem to get them off the rocks without them popping, and many of them are down in the rocks where i can just see the tops. So is there anything that will eat them, if not how do i get rid of them. Thanks....Lee
Grape Algee?
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MayoBoy
Movin' on Up
I think that you're referring to bubble algae. My foxface is eating some and the best way I've found to remove them is with a piece of 1/2" thick wall tubing.
Start a siphon into a 5 gallon bucket and scrape the bubbles off with the tubing. Some of it will pop but the siphon will suck the spores into the bucket instead of into your tank.
Start a siphon into a 5 gallon bucket and scrape the bubbles off with the tubing. Some of it will pop but the siphon will suck the spores into the bucket instead of into your tank.
saltyunderground
In Memoriam
My emerald crabs eat green bubble algae. Yesterday I heard a couple of people at the SEASL meeting say their emeralds did not. But it could be because they had some other algae present that the emeralds were eating.
Shooter7
New member
Yeah, I frequently caught mine scraping coralline of the rocks and nibbling on it. He was just scraping away and I thought he was actually doing his job, then I looked closer and saw what he was scraping at. 
I didn't have any other algae for him to eat besides bubble and coralline.
I didn't have any other algae for him to eat besides bubble and coralline.
JxMetal
New member
I have an emerald that I guess eats bubble algae, I put two in a lil while back and have no bubble algae now. So I guess they're hit and miss.
Dave my urchin takes care of all my coralline algae. :lol: He leaves white trails all over, but the coralline grows back in about a week. I think of it as giving the tank diversity. Now I have white and purple rocks, :lol:
Dave my urchin takes care of all my coralline algae. :lol: He leaves white trails all over, but the coralline grows back in about a week. I think of it as giving the tank diversity. Now I have white and purple rocks, :lol:
