wuz up yall in my 12 gallon jbj i have a clown, a gramma, and a skunk shrimp,and two small blue legged hermits. what can i add to get rid of some of that stuff? i also had some brown algea on the sand but it appears to be diminishing little by little. the tank has been running with fish for about 4 days...i already had the algea to begin with when i bought the live rock but now im ready to get rid of it haha i would appreciate some advice and any suggestions on my last fish to get?
wat eats green hair algea?
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TimSchmidt
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Clean up crew. Hermits, snails, and the like. But honestly water changes and light feedings will help the algae kill itself off.
Well adding algae to the tank certainly didn't help now did it? j/k :tong:
Inspecting Live Rock before you add it to your tank is a great habit to get into, especially if you pick up the rock from a fellow aquarist. All kinds of pests and nuisances can enter via your rock. At least the algae is visible, and scrubbing it off with a toothbrush before you add it to the tank is a step in the right direction.
After that, as Tim stated, good maintenance habits come into play. Manual removal (depending on the severity of the outbreak), going easy on your feeding, watching for low flow or dead zones where deritus and excess food can pile up, etc... A clean up crew will aid in the removal of some of the deritus and excess food, but hoping that they will make a noticeable impact in algae reduction is a long shot. You may get lucky and some hermits or snails will pick at it, but they won't eradicate it. Also, the brown algae you are seeing is more than likely diatoms, and should recede on it's own in time.
Yasha Hase White Ray Gobies are ALWAYS my recommendation for any tank.
Good luck.
Inspecting Live Rock before you add it to your tank is a great habit to get into, especially if you pick up the rock from a fellow aquarist. All kinds of pests and nuisances can enter via your rock. At least the algae is visible, and scrubbing it off with a toothbrush before you add it to the tank is a step in the right direction.
After that, as Tim stated, good maintenance habits come into play. Manual removal (depending on the severity of the outbreak), going easy on your feeding, watching for low flow or dead zones where deritus and excess food can pile up, etc... A clean up crew will aid in the removal of some of the deritus and excess food, but hoping that they will make a noticeable impact in algae reduction is a long shot. You may get lucky and some hermits or snails will pick at it, but they won't eradicate it. Also, the brown algae you are seeing is more than likely diatoms, and should recede on it's own in time.
Yasha Hase White Ray Gobies are ALWAYS my recommendation for any tank.
Good luck.
The above suggestions are the ideal approach and getting in the habit of good maintenance is always a good thing.
If you have exhausted all of your "natural" means of clearing up the algae this really does work wonders.
http://www.weissorganics.com/algaemagic.html
Once again I would not recommend starting with the easy way out, go the route of the above suggestions first and if all fails then resort to the additives.
If you have exhausted all of your "natural" means of clearing up the algae this really does work wonders.
http://www.weissorganics.com/algaemagic.html
Once again I would not recommend starting with the easy way out, go the route of the above suggestions first and if all fails then resort to the additives.