Is it a bad idea to add various algae plants?

[Aspiring Tank Guru]

I would like some more color in my tank so I'm thinking about adding some algae plants. Specifically, shaving brush plant, green finger algae, kelp, and red gracilaria feeding algae.

1) Are there any cons of adding any of these and does anyone have experience with them?
2) Could these result in the bloom of nuisance algae?
3) For the ones that the flame angel might eat, will they replenish quick enough or will he completely wipe them out?
4) Is there anything else that I could/should add for some color and diversity

I have a 55 gallon DT with flame angel, 2 snowflake clowns, starry blenny, hi fin red stripe goby, pink spotted goby, Astrea and cerith snails, 1 peppermint shrimp, 1 pistol shrimp. Also thinking about adding a Royal Gramma.

My lighting is a Current-USA Orbit LED light. It is a solid LED light but I do not think it is quite enough support anything that requires high lighting (unless anyone thinks otherwise).

 

[1WildBill]

How deep of a bed do you have? The shaving tree brush requires it to be planted, or attached to something, same with the red gracilaria. As with most algae’s, for it to grow you need to have high nitrates (a source of food for algae) and good lighting.

Do you know what model your orbit light is, satellite, etc?
if You really want to add some color, maybe try some low light corals. Just a thought.

 

[Aspiring Tank Guru]

I have the regular Orbit Marine LED Light which I believe is the more basic of their LED lights. I was looking on liveaquaria and it did not appear that those plants needed too much light so I had thought I might be ok on the lighting part of it.

My sandbed is about 1.5-2" deep and I also have about 65 lbs of live rock. Is that enough sand/rock?

I thought it would be a good idea to get some of these plants to help with excess nutrients in my tank but I did not realize that they needed high nitrates to thrive. How high do my nitrates have to be?

I would much rather do low light corals but I am very concerned that my flame angel would kill them and I have no experience with corals so I also thought that the algaes may be easier to deal with. Do you think that the flame angel would kill any corals?

 

[1WildBill]

Check out algae barn dot com, they can give you a lot of info. Reef cleaners dot com has good info, and their response time is usually fast on questions.