Green Dot Algae

[WerezMiePie]

So I have had two algae outbreaks in my tank that recently completed the cycle.

One, After searching for hours and hours trying to find the name and identify the algae I took a break... I got back onto researching and being frustrated I sarcastically search Green Dot Algae... And it turns out that's the name! It is a PAIN to remove! The site said razor but, I refuse to take a razer to my acrylic tank. Is there a way to remove this... I know clean up crews do very little against this hardy algae... I was thinking a brush not coarse enough to scratch the acrylic but, enough to take off the algae... Any ideas will help!

Two, OFC Green Hair Algae I can take care of this easy... I am ordering a huge cleaner pack that I will pick up in the next few days...
This is the pack,
5 Blue Leg Hermits (My favorite xD)
9 Turbos (As far as I can tell GHA's bane)
2 Pepper ( Idk I just like them)
4 Dwarf Red Leg Hermits (2nd Favorite >)
5 Nassarian (<Lol my spelling)
2 Fighting Chonch (Maybe)

This is for 55 gallon tank so I still have room for more if you can think of others. :spin3:

 

[Miz40B]

Green Dot Algae

CUC is way to large! They'll wind up starving to death eventually. 2 Turbos. Turbos will not eat the longer HA. They mainly scrap algae off surfaces.
1 Blue Leg Hermit (if you have to have one) any more and they'll wind up killing each other and any snails you have too. My favorite Hermits and less aggressive then all others are the Scarlet Hermits, great sand sifters.
Tank is to young for a Fighting Conch.
Pick up 5-10 Nerite Snails, Trochus Snails (careful as they can't right themselves) Bumble Bee Snails are awesome for getting into tight spaces and best of all for turning your sand bed, Nasarrius Snails,, especially the Tonga
Good luck and happy reefing!
Think about keeping your CUC for long term. Just as you would your fish. Your tank is new, start small.

 

[WerezMiePie]

I will take your advice... But, it contradicts everything every one has said... I was originally going with half those numbers then people on my previous threads said to go bigger. Even my LFM that I have bean talking to for ever said I should go bigger!... I have one blue leg, one turbo, and 2 nassariun that were living in the rock when I got it and they love it the turbo keeps half of a rock 100% clean of HA. And my nassariuns are doing fine... There's is going to be very little fish for a 55 gallon because the main purpose of it is seahorses... Thanks for the info on fighting conch's... And looking back on the numbers 9 hermits seem a little ambitious I will wait for more comments before I make a final decision! Thanks! I was also thinking, if I can take off the green dot algae with my finger nail, then maybe like a credit card like material might work?

 

[denlinn1]

I thought bumble bee snails are predatory, and will eat stuff you don't want them to eat....might want to check that out.

 

[jcgso]

I have had the green dot algae on new tanks. I was able to get it off with a metal scraper and it did not come back.
I do think you have too many hermits and turbos. As I mentioned in your other thread, I am not a fan of hermts for cleanup, especially in a seahorse tank.
Fighting conchs are good, but not yet since your tank is so young. As your tank matures you can add more snails. My absolute favorites are banded trochus.

 

[vlangel]

I also use a metal scraper on the glass of my seahorse tank which regularly gets the green dot algae. It has a 4 bulb t5 light for photosynthetic gorgs so I have to keep up on algae. The good news is as the tank has matured it gets less algae now. I have an algae eating atlantic cucumber to sift through the sand also.

 

[WerezMiePie]

I added my cleaner pack today... I ended up getting less hermits and LOADS of snails!
I also got 2 pepper shrimp and I gave in to getting a small emerald crab... My LFS said they have had the crab for months so I am hoping it stays abnormally small for its age the only real reason I got it is to clean out my polyps! One of the pepper shrimp was pregnant I was hoping it would wait till I had some fish before it released the babies but, so much for that idea... About 2 minutes after putting them in out they go! The peppers have bean furiously cleaning ever since. I think there is a total of 16 snails, 2 pepper, 1 emerald, and I think around 4 hermits! The LFS ordered 2 tree sponges for me so along with the seaweed, rocks, and sponge their should be plenty of hitches for my seahorses!
Just for the hell of it I got a massive like 3 inch x 3 inch turbo xD. I'd like to know more about these cucumbers, as far as it seems my options for sand sifters are, sleeper gobies,sand stars, cucumbers, conches, if I could get feed back on all them Id really appreciate it! ( Forgot to add there is 7 zombie snails that aren't included in the 15 cleaning snails :>)

 

[WerezMiePie]

Forgot to add picked up my cheato and some rubble, along with some live sand. Let the refugium begin!