Best way to clean algae off of liverock?

[NU-2reef]

Ever try starving the algae with a blanket of chaeto?

So take a ball of chaeto and spread it out like a thick blanket. Weigh it down with live rock and leave for a couple days then check. Repeat if needed. The idea is to have chaeto out compete for nutrients thus starving the algae of light and nutrients. I would also do a fuge with miracle mud and macro algae.

[Atomikk]

Need nothing more than urchins. They naturally clean the reefs in the oceans, so why steer away from them?

[MarkoD]

Turbo snails will decimate algae.

[Nano]

yeah I had some pretty unsightly hair algae at first but I only had an astrea(spelling) snail then I got 3 turbos, and it was gone in about 4 days

[reefgirl189]

Originally Posted by nanomano

yeah I had some pretty unsightly hair algae at first but I only had an astrea(spelling) snail then I got 3 turbos, and it was gone in about 4 days

Did you have to trim the HA down extremely short or would they eat it even if it was more than 1/4" long?

[Nano]

I tried to pull off as much as I could first. I don't think they can handle the really long stuff. I could be wrong though. I just have some in one little spot now, that they never seem to touch.. lol