Overrun with dicoyta

[JonMayo]

My tank has been taken over my dicoyta macro. I hand pick as much as I can. I have a foxface which eats very small amounts.
The tank is a 90gal
Parameters are:
pH - 8.4
Ammonia - 0
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate - 0-5
Phosphate 0
Alk 9.5
Calcium 420
Mag - 1450

I run GFO. What I am wondering can I add a tang (I was thinking either yellow or kole) or some member of a clean up crew to take care of it.

 

[ReefWreak]

Foxface is likely as good an algae eater as you're going to get. Dictoya is just an unusually tough/undigestable algae, so it's particularly tough to get rid of. Manual removal and reduced nutrients are the best way to fight it unfortunately.

 

[kowyzg0moo]

I ended up getting a Sea Urchin which ate all of the Dictoya in our tank.

 

[Redeyes31]

I ended up getting a Sea Urchin which ate all of the Dictoya in our tank.

Thats a quick fix.

What's the sea urchin like? I understand they can bulldoze stuff in your tank, possibly move corals around on their backs and eat things you don't want them eating?

 

[Sugar Magnolia]

As long as you have frags glued firmly to the rocks it's unlikely that the urchin can dislodge them.

 

[LeJeune981]

I second the urchin

I have a pure white pincusion / collector urchin.. anything not glued is fair game.. but it is one heck of clean up crew member.. mine fragged my zoas last week lol

It's never harmed any of my corals..fun to watch and a voracious eater

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[JonMayo]

Thanks so much guys.