Zebrasoma desjardinii ????

[cl2ysta1]

our regular sailfin ate everything. Even bryopsis. It's hit or miss i'd say. A foxface is probably a good bet thouggh

 

[h20 freak1]

It is better to look for ways to fix your water then look for a fish to eat algae, treat the cause not the symptom.

 

[77railer]

We have pushed up water changes to 15G a week...its a long story...when we bought the tank it was completely covered in hair algae...like 6 inch long pieces covering all the rock. We didnt know any better at the time or we would have cooked the rock or done something else before using it. A year into this battle we have tried just about everything including removing if not covering every piece of metal near the tank, running a phosban reactor, only running blue/purple lights for 6hrs, feeding our fish very little, and never feeding our corals...we dream of the day we come home and only see fish rock and corals in our tank...if we can manage to get this tank under control we will upgrade...it has been interesting to say the least.

Long Story Short...I think its the rock we started out with..

Leroy

 

[h20 freak1]

Red hair has always been in my tank, there is always a small spot on a rock here or behind the powerhead over there, but its nothing really. But when I slack off it comes quick and hard, only leaving when I get back to work. Adding a fish for algae control isn't a great idea, I would only recommend a sand sifter for such a job because they are actually cleaning up the sand. You should look into inverts instead, urchins plow through any algae, even corraline,black long spines are especially attractive.Lettuce sea slugs are another smarter option.

 

[Recty]

If you havent tried turbo snails yet, I suggest doing that. I had some hair algae problems in my old 75g and two turbo snails quickly decimated it. And I do mean quick, I had about 50 cerith and nerite snails in there and they weren't doing too much, after about 6 months of manual removal and water changes quite frequently, I bought two turbos and within a week every last scrap of algae was gone.

Something to try anyway.