Green Hair Algae

[Knoxjoelee]

I run phosban in my cannister an also carbon it worked for me. Just saying

 

[Harold Green]

I have several red mithrax crabs that have been in the tank for over a year. So far I haven't seen any damage caused by them. Generally they seem to scrape material too small for me to see off the rocks. I'm guessing bits of algae. If you purchase snails usually fish stores will be happy to sell you a cup or so of empty shells. Just toss them in the back of the tank and the hermits will take what they need. I've got three different varieties of hermits and so far I've yet to see them bother a live snail. Perhaps it has to do with whether they find enough food in the tank.

 

[brianguz760]

Hope it helps. I usually figure a year to get a tank well balanced. Not saying you can't have a beautiful tank from the start but often it's the pods and other life in the tank that helps to keep it stable and it takes a while to get them established. Personally I'd get a large clean up crew. Several varieties of snail, hermits, perhaps mithrax crabs. Enough to stir up the bottom of the tank after you've fed the fish. It takes a surprising amount of snails and hermits and most reef tanks I've seen have very few but they seem to work well for me. You can find a pretty good deal by buying fifty or a hundred at a time. Generally the smaller crabs and snails do a better job. The small varieties of brittle stars make good food scavengers removing food the crabs don't find. You may also try to adjust your water flow to flush debris up off the gravel to help the filter remove it from the system.

Great advice!. [emoji3]

 

[jman9331]

so far this is what I did I blacked out the entire tank for a couple days no effect like it would cyano. so I went and took the majority of it out came up pretty easily since it was like a blanket. then I cleaned the hell out of my canister filter, and purchased a couple dozen snails and a diamond watchman. so far I see some improvement I believe it was the filter that needed to be really deep cleaned. shall see what happens.