Nori and GHA

[LoneStarReef]

So I was doing great in the nuisance algae department until I started feeding Nori to my Tang. Any suggestions? I am about to the point of giving away my Tang it's gotten so bad.

 

[Skynyrd Fish]

Stop feeding nori. Your tang needs to graze. If this doesn’t help, you’ll need to take the rocks out and scrub them in a bucket of tank water.

 

[Skynyrd Fish]

I forgot what kind of tang?

 

[LoneStarReef]

Skynyrd, love that name.

It's a Yellow Tang.

 

[Skynyrd Fish]

It should be grazing at all times. However it won’t eat gha once it gets hairy. I have two urchins, a tuxedo and a long spine that mow my rocks clean. Again they don’t love long gha, so scrub your rocks best you can.

Skynyrd, love that name.

I definitely may have a slight Skynyrd issue. Always have.

 

[ca1ore]

Nori is no more likely to cause GHA than any other food in the sense of adding nutrients to the water, but it can ‘distract’ tangs from eating naturally occurring algae.

 

[LoneStarReef]

It should be grazing at all times. However it won’t eat gha once it gets hairy. I have two urchins, a tuxedo and a long spine that mow my rocks clean. Again they don’t love long gha, so scrub your rocks best you can.

What song is it you wanna hear???

Thanks for the advice. I will scrub the GHA down.

 

[Daniel@R2R Verified Admin]

Interesting point. My tangs graze all day. Maybe that's why they're ignoring the nori I've offered them.

 

[Skynyrd Fish]

This tank was covered with gha pretty good, after a heater malfunction. Tank was at 67 for at least a week before I caught it. Gha went nuts after.

I have about four hermits and the two urchins. The scrubbing rock and cleaning all sand helped. I still have a few tufts of gha, but it is super manageable. As you can see it’s time for my monthly coralline scraping. This is a twenty year old acrylic, so I don’t scrape coralline to often.