Tang for my 43 gallon tank?

[steveschuerger]

Ok well now I’m starting to feel like I’m heavily weighing adding a lawnmower blenny instead of tang. I’ve just heard so many negative things ab lawnmower blennys not actually eating the algae.

If I didn’t already have a comb tooth blenny I’d definitely get a lawnmower. I’ve known several people who have one and they devoured the algae

 

[VintageReefer]

reread post 2 of you missed it

I have same results - see picture 1 and 2 only change was fix scrubber and wait 17 days.

Scrubber has been limiting / preventing / controlling algae growth in my display for 2 years. I don’t do water changes, I don’t have a skimmer, I only add fw top off and empty my scrubber every 7-10 days

Every 6-7 days I grow this in the scrubber. And in the display I do have algae but it’s like maybe a tiny tuft in an occasional spot, not noticeable unless really hunting for it

Scrubber is my only source of filtration

 

[jmoney7]

reread post 2 of you missed it

I have same results - see picture 1 and 2 only change was fix scrubber and wait 17 days.

Scrubber has been limiting / preventing / controlling algae growth in my display for 2 years. I don’t do water changes, I don’t have a skimmer, I only add fw top off and empty my scrubber every 7-10 days

Every 6-7 days I grow this in the scrubber. And in the display I do have algae but it’s like maybe a tiny tuft in an occasional spot, not noticeable unless really hunting for it

Scrubber is my only source of filtration

That’s awesome scrubbers are just so expensive! I’m a broke college student lol.

 

[slingfox]

That’s awesome scrubbers are just so expensive! I’m a broke college student lol.

I have an inadvertent algae scrubber in my refugium. I originally had a refugium light (any plant growing light is fine) shining on two balls of chaeto floating in two mesh pond baskets. After a while, GHA and turf algae grew on the inside surface of the mesh basket and the balls of chaeto. I eventually just took out the chaeto and put in plastic pot scrubbers from Amazon which provide more surface area for the algae as well as home for copepods.

 

[OrionN]

43 gal tank is too small long term for any of the tangs. Lawnmower blenny? And a few large snails.

 

[jmoney7]

I have an inadvertent algae scrubber in my refugium. I originally had a refugium light (any plant growing light is fine) shining on two balls of chaeto floating in two mesh pond baskets. After a while, GHA and turf algae grew on the inside surface of the mesh basket and the balls of chaeto. I eventually just took out the chaeto and put in plastic pot scrubbers from Amazon which provide more surface area for the algae as well as home for copepods.

Thank you for the help!

 

[exnisstech]

I have absolutely considered lawnmower blenny however I’ve just heard a lot of people say they don’t actually eat much hair algae.

I'm on my second lawnmower blenny. Neither ate gha. The current one will scrape the glass and eat critters off the rock but doesn't touch gha.
I'll admit I have not read all the posts but I think a bristle tooth tang would work in a tank that size. I keep a yellow and two spot bristle tooth in a 36x24x24 tank and all is fine. Most fish and inverts won't eat long algae though, you'll need to trim it back if it's too long. Big ol Mexican turbo snails do a pretty good job in my tanks. My emerald crabs also do a good job pulling gha off the rocks and they're fun to watch.