reefmedown
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emerald crabs is the best, but they might eat coral, any other???
i need a list of cleaning crew for brown hair algae
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jstack
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toothbrush and good water param's?
CStrickland
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Hair algae is usually green, I hope you don't have dinos
If it is algae, the clean up crew is sort of secondary no matter which animals you choose. You need to get your water in check so there's no fertilizer to grow the algae. And remove as much as you can yourself. And then some snails, urchins, crabs, etc. will eat little bits that pop up here and there. But it's not like there's some animal you can buy to take care of the problem if your water is dirty to start with.
If it is algae, the clean up crew is sort of secondary no matter which animals you choose. You need to get your water in check so there's no fertilizer to grow the algae. And remove as much as you can yourself. And then some snails, urchins, crabs, etc. will eat little bits that pop up here and there. But it's not like there's some animal you can buy to take care of the problem if your water is dirty to start with.
Pandagobyguy
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+1 what strickland said.
I wanted to add that "brown hair algae" grew in my tank for the first few months. I initially missinterpreted this as dinos because it also had bubbles and grew close to the rock.
I later put this on a slide to see what kind of "dinos" they were:
Sorry for the poor focus but, that is, in words, a single strand of green hair algae that is COVERED in diatoms.
In the tank it looks completely like dinos. (But it grows too long eventually)
I wanted to add that "brown hair algae" grew in my tank for the first few months. I initially missinterpreted this as dinos because it also had bubbles and grew close to the rock.
I later put this on a slide to see what kind of "dinos" they were:
Sorry for the poor focus but, that is, in words, a single strand of green hair algae that is COVERED in diatoms.
In the tank it looks completely like dinos. (But it grows too long eventually)
