Algae problems

[Sipec]

Hi, I'm struggling with hair and bubble algae, but I don't want to get an emerald crab cause I've heard horror stories of them eating fish, and I love my fish. And I can't get a tang cause I only have a 24 gallon tank. Blennies are out of the question too, cause I have a tailspot, but he barely dents it.
And I have 3 turbo and 2 other snails that I think are trochus. And then a nassarius snail I haven't seen in months and a pom pom crab that I haven't seen in a while either. So, is there any other critters or some artificial way to remove bubble algae?

 

[Sipec]

Phosphate rx maybe? Has anyone had any luck with that?

 

[KrisReef]

Heres one thread that has a cure:
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/bryopsis-cure-my-battle-with-bryopsis-using-fluconazole.285096/

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[brandon429]

all else other than de clouding waste out of your system is taking chances with your livestock, potentially stressing corals as you starve algae and make changes to the system to try and starve it or medicating the algae wo removing a prime feed source, tank work cleaning is how you get algae free in a nano.

-take the nano apart and make the sandbed 100% cloudless via rinsing we have a large thread on that step.
-while its taken apart, kill the algae off the rocks, scrape it out then kill the algae directly dont just medicate, then rinse them in saltwater to flush out the detritus causing most of this. Make the rocks open back up, no more blanketing from algae/ideal

you have a detritus issue as well I bet, post tank pics we'll ID where the waste is hiding. Very few people actually want to be algae free, what they really want is no-work algae free, and those tanks sometimes never comply.


we put back your tank cleanly and then make sure the light isn't too white, your algae is fixed and your corals aren't stressed like they are from starving algae, or dosing meds then it just grows back in three mos since the de clouding wasn't done.

 

[Sipec]

all else other than de clouding waste out of your system is taking chances with your livestock, potentially stressing corals as you starve algae and make changes to the system to try and starve it or medicating the algae wo removing a prime feed source, tank work cleaning is how you get algae free in a nano.

-take the nano apart and make the sandbed 100% cloudless via rinsing we have a large thread on that step.
-while its taken apart, kill the algae off the rocks, scrape it out then kill the algae directly dont just medicate, then rinse them in saltwater to flush out the detritus causing most of this. Make the rocks open back up, no more blanketing from algae/ideal

you have a detritus issue as well I bet, post tank pics we'll ID where the waste is hiding. Very few people actually want to be algae free, what they really want is no-work algae free, and those tanks sometimes never comply.


we put back your tank cleanly and then make sure the light isn't too white, your algae is fixed and your corals aren't stressed like they are from starving algae, or dosing meds then it just grows back in three mos since the de clouding wasn't done.

Thanks, I'm going to do a water change either later or on sunday, although I'd rather not take the rocks out, cause my royal gramma likes to Lodge herself in a rock, and then if I take it out then she'll be in it, and it's stressfull for both of us
And for the lighting I have t5s, although I might buy myself an ai prime for black Friday
Another thing that may be helping the algae is it's been a bit since I've changed the carbon