myzislow
Active member
Lately I've had an outbreak of red turf algae(Asparagopsis?) in my 29 gallon mixed(manily SPS) reef. It hasn't reached plague like proportions, yet, and I'd like to prevent it before it does. I do weekly water changes with RO. My trates are in check but I'm not sure of the phosphate. I have a HOB refugium with chaeto that is maintained regularly.
I need to replenish my clean up crew as it is severely lacking and has been for awhile now. I currently only have an algae blenny, and 4 nassarius snails. I don't really want any hermits as they can sometimes crawl over and irritate my SPS corals, so snails would be my best bet. Though if there is a specific type of hermit that seems to like the turf algae I will definitely try them out and remove them when they become a problem to my corals.
I read in my research so far that mexican turbo snails have an appetite for red turf algae, is there any truth to this? Are there any other snails that like to dine on this problem algae? I can try some turbos, the only thing I don't like is that they are usually large and can knock things over in my reef.
My light is a 150w Sun pod HQI with a photo peroid of 10 hours a day.
Any suggestions and help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
here is a pic i found when doing a search. This si the stuff:
I need to replenish my clean up crew as it is severely lacking and has been for awhile now. I currently only have an algae blenny, and 4 nassarius snails. I don't really want any hermits as they can sometimes crawl over and irritate my SPS corals, so snails would be my best bet. Though if there is a specific type of hermit that seems to like the turf algae I will definitely try them out and remove them when they become a problem to my corals.
I read in my research so far that mexican turbo snails have an appetite for red turf algae, is there any truth to this? Are there any other snails that like to dine on this problem algae? I can try some turbos, the only thing I don't like is that they are usually large and can knock things over in my reef.
My light is a 150w Sun pod HQI with a photo peroid of 10 hours a day.
Any suggestions and help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
here is a pic i found when doing a search. This si the stuff:
