Algae eaters

MonsterReef · May 11, 2016

I'm looking for some good algae eaters that are not turbo snails per fere a good fish any suggestions[emoji12]

Naiad · May 11, 2016

Starry blenny will take care of algea. Wasn't a fan of bryopsis though lol

MonsterReef · May 11, 2016

Will it eat brown algae off of rocks and some coral

JackDE · May 12, 2016

My lawnmower Blenny cleans my rocks, glass and cuc. My coral are a week new and he hasn't seemed to pay them any attention

Naiad · May 12, 2016

matthew crowson said:
Will it eat brown algae off of rocks and some coral

Yep loves that stuff

dwebb1031 · May 12, 2016

Blennies are good but they're grazers and will eat what you feed your (frozen, etc.) this limiting their algae appetite. In a larger tank algae will probably grow faster than your blenny can handle. On the other hand you have sea hares which take to algae like a t-800 to John Connor. I have a 75 that had a decent hair algae issue bought a medium sea hare and it was completely gone in 2-1/2 days. They literally do not stop eating. The down side is once their out of food you need a new home for them. We had a couple years back one that traveled from tank to tank in my home town. One side note be careful if you have cleaner shrimp, since they clean any new addition to your tank they'll go straight for him. Bad part is even though they're trying to help they can easily kill him by over picking at his rectum and tearing it.