Best Algae-Eating Fish for Your Reef Tank! (2024)

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@hdemetri 3 ай бұрын

I have a 160 gallon, 10 month old reef tank. I have green hair algae issue, mild to moderate. I have lawnmower blenny, foxface, blue spot rabbit, blue hippo, sailfin tang, and chocolate tang. I feed nori every day to keep them healthy, and they are super happy and healthy. I was considering stopping or reducing the nori to see if I can get these fish to eat the hair algae but have been worried I'd get them stressed or sick. I had an Ich outbreak about 8 months ago. Any experience with getting this herbivore gang to start to attack the hair algae?

@TheCoralReefTalk 3 ай бұрын

Nice, Those are some great fish! I would recommend picking out as much of the long stringy strands as you can as close to the rock work as you can. They will be more likely to go after the shorter areas of hair algae. I wouldn't reduce the feeding. How have things been since the ich outbreak?

@hdemetri 3 ай бұрын

@@TheCoralReefTalk Thanks for the advice. I have been doing as much manual removal as possible and my chocolate tang and sailfin seem to do okay with picking at the short stuff. As far as the ich is concerned, I have taken the path of ich management rather than eradication as I prefer to reduce stressors as much as possible. My first outbreak was when I impulsively added a powder blue as one of my first fish (not quarantined) when the tank was about a month old. It probably had velvet and died. I waited a couple of months and then added a 13w UV sterilizer (small but easy to put in sump) and put got the blue hippo and foxface. They ended up with lots of white spots but I used metroplex, lots of nori, vitamins, and polylab Medic/hydrogen peroxide. After about a month the ich cleared up and then I added the sailfin, chocolate tang, and blue spot rabbitfish. Also a watanbei angel was added. All of the fish other than the powder blue are doing great. I do not have any real evidence of ich at all. I am just keeping them fat and happy. My LFS uses copper in their tanks but they don't quarantine.