Teamwork

[SkiFletch]

Try as I might to full eliminate algae in my aquarium, I always tend to get a little growing in the teeth of my overflow box. It's really not that big a deal so I just leave it be. Harvest it when it gets thick, otherwise let it ride. My OF box is FULL of pods and my Red Velvet Wrasse knows it. He's constantly prowling the thing lookin for an unsuspecting pod to stroll out of the safety of the box in between the teeth. While I was watching him in one of his usual hunts, I saw the pod squirt out of the algae and the wrasse POUNCED, grabbed the pod and algae really hard, and just ripped the tuft of algae out of the space between the OF box teeth. He had to hit it once or twice more before he finally grabbed the pod out of it, then he spit the tuft of algae out and my Kole Tang flys out of nowhere to swallow the algae up in one breath. I wonder if he was lurking the whole time, just waiting for the wrasse to loose interest . Now, if I can just convince the two of them to do that with ALL the tufts of algae between the OF box teeth :lolspin:

 

[der_wille_zur_macht]

Built in algae scrubber FTW. Overflow box teeth are a visually unobtrusive and easy to harvest location for hair algae compared to having it grow on your rocks and corals.

 

[SkiFletch]

Def built-in algae scrubber. Thing works great. Just need to convince those fish to be built-in pruners :lol:

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

kewl Wrasse story

IME/IMO most Wrasses must have good eyesight. As soon as my water returns spit out a pod, Cirrhilabrus are ON.

If it's only a pod molt... they seem to realize it in a nano second and let it blow by.