Algea eating fish for a 40 gallon long

[ScottyD36]

I have a Cobalt CVUE 40 gallon tank. It has been up and running over a year now. I am looking to add another fish to my tank. One that preferably would peck at hair algae and would be comfortable with the current inhabitants I have. I should preface this that my tank randomly gets specs of hair algae that I manually pull off when I clean tank. Its not a full blown outbreak or anything of that nature. I just want to see if their is a fish out there that would nip at the algae from time to time. Thanks for any suggestions

My tanks stocking is:
2 Clown Fish
Six Line Wrasse
Tail Spot Blenny
Aphtasia eating file fish.
Green Chromis

 

[vetteguy53081]

I have a Cobalt CVUE 40 gallon tank. It has been up and running over a year now. I am looking to add another fish to my tank. One that preferably would peck at hair algae and would be comfortable with the current inhabitants I have. I should preface this that my tank randomly gets specs of hair algae that I manually pull off when I clean tank. Its not a full blown outbreak or anything of that nature. I just want to see if their is a fish out there that would nip at the algae from time to time. Thanks for any suggestions

My tanks stocking is:
2 Clown Fish
Six Line Wrasse
Tail Spot Blenny
Aphtasia eating file fish.
Green Chromis

Twin spot blenny
Lawnmower blenny
Pin cushion urchin

 

[shakacuz]

court jester goby

 

[BTimms]

In my humble opinion your tank is maxed out, maybe even border line ovestocked. any more bioload just becomes problematic for you to keep things in check and clean. But I tend to enjoy lightly stocked tanks, just personal choice.

In this case I’d recommend a urchin, and a bunch of snails. They are awesome algae eaters!

 

[i cant think]

In my humble opinion your tank is maxed out, maybe even border line ovestocked. any more bioload just becomes problematic for you to keep things in check and clean. But I tend to enjoy lightly stocked tanks, just personal choice.

In this case I’d recommend a urchin, and a bunch of snails. They are awesome algae eaters!

I agree with this, a lot of the fish you have get rather large already, if you wanted more then it would’ve been better to go with fish that top at 3 inch with one that gets four inch.