What is a good algae grazer?

b_james · #1 03-13-2006, 06:11 PM

[quote=TheReefGeek]Your overflow should be protected with plastic mesh on top to stop all your future creatures from getting in there.
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I do have eggcrate at the top of my overflow but was thinking they might be able to either crawl over top or squeeze through it. Any comments?

Psyire · #2 03-13-2006, 06:31 PM

Small snails, crabs, shrimp and fish will go through eggcrate. If you stick to larger stuff it'll be ok.

Gutter guard works good for tying to the eggcrate with zipties. (you can find this at your local hardware store) It's basically just a black mesh material.

TheReefGeek · #3 03-13-2006, 06:40 PM

If you have eggcrate that is good enough against a sea hare. If you run powerheads make sure there are covers on the intakes.

There is smaller mesh stuff than eggcrate that is better though

b_james · #4 03-13-2006, 08:20 PM

The inlet on the Tunze streams shouldnt be a problem I hope?... I beleive I have some gutter mesh - Black plastic diamond mesh stuff.. I think I will apply some to my overflow.

SeaHorse_Fanatic · #5 03-13-2006, 10:47 PM

Those stream type powerheads can & will kill sea hares so make sure they're covered. Any powerheads can suck up an unsuspecting sea hare but the Tunze & Seios are so high powered, they're even more of threat.

StirCrazy · #6 03-13-2006, 11:14 PM

the lawnmower blennie is a film algae eater, won't make any difference in the hair alage at all.

Steve

Old Guy · #7 03-13-2006, 11:15 PM

I actually have a 20gal with lots of hair algae growth. I put this growth into my FOWLR tank.My fox face rabbit fish and my blueface angel will clean a rock in about 2 hours. The rabbit loves all types of algae whereas the lawnmower in the same tank would prefer for me to feed it

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Bartman · #8 03-14-2006, 06:45 AM

With your tank being so new and if you don't have many corals yet you might consider cutting back on your lighting period (if you haven't already). You didn't say whether your live rock was cured or not when you got it. A number of articles I've read suggest slowly raising your lighting period on new tanks from 4 to 10 hours over 6-8 weeks.

b_james · #9 03-14-2006, 04:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Bartman

With your tank being so new and if you don't have many corals yet you might consider cutting back on your lighting period (if you haven't already). You didn't say whether your live rock was cured or not when you got it. A number of articles I've read suggest slowly raising your lighting period on new tanks from 4 to 10 hours over 6-8 weeks.

The rock I got was 'supposably' curred according to my vendor, however with the delay in shipment I did expect a considerable amount of die-off. The lighting cycle started a week after receiving the LR, followed by MH's a week after that with a short 3-4 hour photo period. After I started with aggressive water changes in the 3rd week I increased the photo period to about 7 hours. So basically for the last 3 weeks my MH's have been on a 7 hour schedule.