Will a kole or tomini tang eat microalgae?

[ben jammin]

I've got,a FOWLR tank with some messy eaters who are non-invert friendly, so I can't have a cleanup crew. I am getting a fair amount of brown micro algae on my ReadyReef live rock due to high nitrates. Fish are all happy and healthy but I'd like my rocks cleaned. Since I can't add snails I was wondering if a kole or tomini tang would do the trick. I have a yellow, hippo and naso tang already, and am planning to add a powder blue, but they are all different genus' so I don't think aggression should be an issue. I am really just wondering if one of these bristletooths will actually eat this stuff. It's basically like brown discoloration, not hair or macro algae, and my other tangs and gold spotted rabbit fish won't touch it. I've been told a bristletooth will eat it, but I'd like to be sure before adding one.

 

[reefgoddess808]

Depends on the fish I suppose. I had a tomini that cleaned my tank in about 12 hours. And the two spot bristletooth I have now cleans mostly the glass, not so much the rocks.

 

[xtlosx]

My kole cleans the glass constantly, and even the rocks as well but rarely eating much from the rocks. He even goes after any cotton candy algae I have, primarily just ripping it off the rocks themselves. I recently added a purple tang with the Kole and between the two, they are getting just about everything I have.