which foxface for bubble algae?

[OrionN]

Poke a hole in the bubble and any tang will eat it. Hard for the fish to bite large bubbles

 

[Reefvet]

Poke a hole in the bubble and any tang will eat it. Hard for the fish to bite large bubbles

Poke a whole in it and watch how many more grow all over your tank. That's about the worst thing you can do.

Strawberry crabs love the stuff. I have 3 of them. They eat Valonia without touching any corals. They're a deeper water crab than an emerald.

 

[Reefvet]

Double post. Please remove

 

[OrionN]

Poke a whole in it and watch how many more grow all over your tank. That's about the worst thing you can do.

Strawberry crabs love the stuff. I have 3 of them. They eat Valonia without touching any corals. They're a deeper water crab than an emerald.

Please read up on reproduction of bubble algae. They reproduce by rhizoids and cell division.
There is no evidence that the bubbles are pack full of spores ready to multiply when rupture.

Also when when an animal eat bubble algae, they first must cause a rupture of the bubble. They cannot eat the bubble whole

 

[OrionN]

I think Bubble algae reproduce by rupturing and release spores is a reef myth that need to be put to rest.

 

[d-man]

The poking of it I don't believe does much in terms of release of spores. Maybe when large. But the fish don't eat it whole, when they bite they rip and smash it, yet it goes away. I think this is more a wives tale, but possibly some truth if the algae is at sexual reproduction state

 

[tkeracer619]

Both my magnificent foxs eat it.

I can put an aptasia, bubble algae, and tube worm infested rock in my tank and between the butterflies, angels, tangs, and the foxface it's picked clean overnight

 

[OrionN]

Both my magnificent foxs eat it.

I can put an aptasia, bubble algae, and tube worm infested rock in my tank and between the butterflies, angels, tangs, and the foxface it's picked clean overnight

If they are that good at eating it, are they:
hungry?
eat any of your corals or anemone?

My copperband BTF ate all the aptasia.
Foxface, angels and tangs took care of any algae in the tank. If I don't feed them for a few days (out of town without tank sitter) the angels bother my T. gigas. Once I start to feed them again, they are be fine.

 

[tkeracer619]

Nah, they leave the corals alone. Just hammers, a frogspawn, a torch, and 2 shrooms at this point.

They are hungry active fish and I do feed them rather heavily.

 

[Tuffloud1]

It's just a phase. It'll generally go away on its own, with tank maturity. I'm usually relieved to see it, as an indicator hair algae has had its snit and is done.

Generally its going away coincides with some fish arriving to eat it---which convinces everyone the fish solved the problem.

Patience. Get your chemistry to match mine in the sig line and that may help.

How long does it take for the bubble algae to go away?

My tank is 5 years old. I had turf algae pop up like the plague when my tank was 2 years old. I installed a Turbo turf algae scrubber 3 years ago, turf algae vanished in display and bubble algae took its place - EVERYWHERE.

My algae scrubber continues to produce algae, in addition to the bubble algae in the display. It NEVER stops.

Nitrates and phosphates undetectable.

Alk 8
Calcium 400
Mag 1380
Salinity 1.026
Temp 78

 

[Hanger22reefing]

Used by Vibrant for 6 weeks it works good

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