Do foxface eat algae off the glass?

[Tnops]

I’ve been letting a bunch of algae grow on my glass when I QTed my new batch which includes a foxface and it’s been there for about a week and it seems to be busy pecking the rocks but doesn’t check out the gigantic delicious colony of algae on the glass.

Should I wait for it to figure it out eventually or should I just scrape all of It off?

 

[Ruben's Reef]

They will eat algae from anywhere on the tank. Mine eats algae also from the powerheads.

 

[ryshark]

I’ve been letting a bunch of algae grow on my glass when I QTed my new batch which includes a foxface and it’s been there for about a week and it seems to be busy pecking the rocks but doesn’t check out the gigantic delicious colony of algae on the glass.

Should I wait for it to figure it out eventually or should I just scrape all of It off?

Scrape it off. It’s just film algae on the glass.

 

[Tnops]

It’s like this, nutrients are high enough so if I scrape these off then…

 

[hockeyhead019]

They'll find it sooner or later... mine was the other way around, ate it off the back glass first, then the power heads, then my rock

 

[SamsReef]

once the hair algae becomes this big, its a hit or miss for any fishes including tangs...especially if you don't keep them super hungry. I would suggest to trim the algae and then the foxface might be able to keep it trimmed.

Sam

 

[ryshark]

I don’t think there is any way around scraping the glass.
No fish or snails will keep a nice clean viewing panel of glass.

 

[Tnops]

alright thanks guys, I'll siphon it out

 

[Miami Reef]

I don’t think there is any way around scraping the glass.
No fish or snails will keep a nice clean viewing panel of glass.

I agree with this. Snails just give a pattern over the algae.

 

[Tnops]

There are these tube likes structures all over my glass. I didn’t think much of them until a weird white crustacean came out of them (not copepod or amphipod). Anyone know what I’m talking about?

 

[Tnops]

There are these tube likes structures all over my glass. I didn’t think much of them until a weird white crustacean came out of them (not copepod or amphipod). Anyone know what I’m talking about?

just did a quick search "tube crustacean" and came across this article: https://zoologicalletters.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40851-017-0082-7

That seems to be it. Never heard of it in this hobby, anyone know a thing or two about it? A shame I have to scrape all of their houses off but you gotta do what you gotta do