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I haven't heard of either of those products harming SPS.
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Ya thats the impression I got from the threads on RC. But then I can screw anything up.....
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What do you have for CUC Doug? Often all it takes if some beefing up and the algae will be gone, not always a need to mess with parameters.
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Sorry Mindy. Not sure what CUC is?
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Clean up crew...snails, hermits etc
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Oh. DOH !
I have lots of trochus snails, several red leg hermits & blues. The algae is to long for the snails. I have a few emeralds who love to eat the algae but they can't keep up to that much. I also have a sea hare that likes glass hard algae instead of what its suppose to be eating. No fish, as Im in my 2nd month fishless from the velvet disaster. I have 6 shrimp which I feed daily plus the feed keeps the biological alive. It something would eat it besides the emeralds I would add a bunch of them but don't think thats going to happen.
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Here,s an example. As seen in the pic, its starting to affect my corals. For whatever reason the coral is not focused correct but algae is, so you get the idea.
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I'd be suggesting something that looks like this (this is your 50-gallon right??): 15 Scarlet Hermits 5 Trochus 5 Turbo 3 Spiny Astraea 3 Pyramid Astraea 6 Ring Cowrie 6 Nerite 6 Tongan Nassarius 1 Fighting Conch The key is variety. Don't buy the small-type Nassarius or Cerith snails with hermits in the tank - they are just too easy pickings for hermits. My Scarlet Hermits have never touched any of the above suggested snails. I have all of those in my tanks for years. You will probably have to remove 20% of the above numbers once they've trimmed out all the algae. Last edited by Myka; 11-19-2015 at 06:12 PM. |