What is a good algae grazer

[BJJ]

Tank is on its fifth week of cycling with 200lbs of LR, I dont have any fish or inverts yet - except for two hitchhiking snails. However I did recently add a fist size peice of macro algae (berry type) and 3 small frags of button polyps & star polyps to 'seed' the system. Water used for initial fill, top-off and changes is RO/DI, not a drop of tap water. I had a light diatom bloom 2-3 weeks ago followed by a few tuffs of green hair. I am still not 100% sure that this is the bad hair algae as the stuff I have is a very light vivid green color, the diameter of the hair seems a lot thicker and the spacing between each hair is greater - not as concentrated. Also some of the hairs have are curled rather than straight. It been a while sinse I have battled hair algae, but from what I can recall, hair algae im used to is dark green very fine with a very dense coverage. ANYWAY, can anyone recomend a good grazer. There isnt a lot of this but I would like to act now to keep in check.

 

[know-it-all]

depends really on what other fish you want to have

probably start with a algae grazing blenny

 

[Craig Lambert]

I would ad 6 turbo snails and a dozen Astreas at this point. They will work the rock.

 

[BJJ]

My initial thoughts was to get a lawnmower blenny, However I still need to get a cleanup crew.

What about blue legged hermits?

 

[Craig Lambert]

Personally I would skip the hermits. They will murder snails....It's just a matter of when .......

 

[know-it-all]

I feel the optimal clean-up crew is
ceriths snails, nasarius snails, and blue-leg hermits (the little ones)

and a pistol shrimp/gobie to keep the sand clean