Algea

[hasher]

Good evening. I am having algea start growing on my rocks, see attached photo) I do have a serious phosphate problem (only parameter out of normal) which I have been battling but my question is more about the algea. Is this green hair algea? What would be the best algea crew for this? I do have a lawn mower blenny ( can I have more than one in my 70 gallon tank)?, Lots of emerald crabs, hermit crabs, conch, and snails. Just wondering would anything else eat this until I figure out my phosphate problem?
Thanks

 

[Pistondog]

Good evening. I am having algea start growing on my rocks, see attached photo) I do have a serious phosphate problem (only parameter out of normal) which I have been battling but my question is more about the algea. Is this green hair algea? What would be the best algea crew for this? I do have a lawn mower blenny ( can I have more than one in my 70 gallon tank)?, Lots of emerald crabs, hermit crabs, conch, and snails. Just wondering would anything else eat this until I figure out my phosphate problem?
Thanks

Those guys are the all stars of algae beaters, but they will only eat the algae if hungry. So if you feed the herbivores plenty of nori, they are less likely to munch on anything else. Maybe cut back on the feedings?
Urchin and tailspot blenny would round-out the line up.

 

[hasher]

Those guys are the all stars of algae beaters, but they will only eat the algae if hungry. So if you feed the herbivores plenty of nori, they are less likely to munch on anything else. Maybe cut back on the feedings?
Urchin and tailspot blenny would round-out the line up.

Thank you for the quick response, yes that is definitely my concern. My blenny is very fat. I do feed nori for my Tang and foxfaces, but this only 2 or so times a week and quarter sheet. Can I have tailspot and lawn mower blenny together?

 

[Pistondog]

Thank you for the quick response, yes that is definitely my concern. My blenny is very fat. I do feed nori for my Tang and foxfaces, but this only 2 or so times a week and quarter sheet. Can I have tailspot and lawn mower blenny together?

With the tang and foxface you have plenty of munchers, cut back feeding.
I have a tailspot and starry in a 75 gallon.

 

[hasher]

With the tang and foxface you have plenty of munchers, cut back feeding.
I have a tailspot and starry in a 75 gallon.

Thank you

 

[Ippyroy]

I'd manually remove as much as possible and put turban or trochus snails right on the rock afterwards. If they don't finish eating it then I would go to the LFS and get new ones.
If your rocks and corals are glued and very steady a tuxedo urchin or two would be great.