I need a smaller yellow tang.......

[RRafael]

Does anyone have a smaller yellow tang to either loan or sell cheap, this is temporary for my 24 Nano that has a hair algea issue. This was set up for sea horses but I dont want to put them in until the hair algea is gone........

Thanks in advance, Rich-

 

[YolaKola]

I was at Coral Paradise in Arlington Hts on Saturday. He had a really cute small one for about $25-Nano perfect!!! (24 E. NorthWest Hwy) They had a great sale going on.....maybe someone picked it up by now. I'd phone first. Good Luck

 

[Victoly]

Tang-police ... Halt! LOL

 

[YolaKola]

OOOOPPPPSSSS - sorry!!! I did assume that eventually the tang would get moved into a bigger tank, after he does his "job" of eating the algea......I thought I didn't have to qualify that info......

 

[Victoly]

LOL ... I was just kidding. I figured thats what you meant

 

[RRafael]

yes ofcourse he will be moved with in a month or two, can't have tangs and horses together

 

[whiirly]

you would be better off trying to figure out why you have hair algea and solving the problem or it will come back after you remove the tang
do you have room for a refugium?

 

[RRafael]

Yes I have a refugium on there bu the algea came from a rock I was (rock sitting) for a friend.

 

[Rod Buehler]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8311241#post8311241 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by whiirly
you would be better off trying to figure out why you have hair algea and solving the problem or it will come back after you remove the tang
do you have room for a refugium?

I agree

Yes I have a refugium on there bu the algea came from a rock I was (rock sitting) for a friend.

but if the nutrients werent there to fuel the algea, the algae wouldnt be there

 

[ostrow]

Ok, now I hijack. I tried this starve the algae of nutrients trick a long time ago. I ended up starving fish too.

How are you supposed to starve a tank of nutrients that feed algae if you are feeding Rod Food to the fish and corals??? And yes, I have a cleanup crew (see other threads), and a fuge (which grows hair algae more than any other algae), and run carbon and purigen and a mammoth skimmer blah, blah, blah...

Contradictory demands, it seems to me...

 

[joroscoe]

if i said it once, i've said it a thousand times: i don't think algae growth is completely understood. certainly we have identified factors, but no one has "the answer" IMO

 

[roberts722]

I agree with Rod.

The tang may eat the algae but what happens when he gets moved out. If you do not solve the high nutrient issue then all the green will just come back.

Get to "the root" cause. Lights and nutrients are the two biggest contributors to algal growth.

 

[hansnfrans]

Don't mean to stray too far from the topic of your quest for a mini-tang, but.....

FWIW: All of my hair algae and cyano outbreaks have been, in large part, due to old bulbs in my lighting. Once I installed newer bulbs, the algae problem was reduced to less than 10% of what it was before the bulb change. What's the situation with your bulbs??