what is best fish

[rjcranor]

I have a 50 gallon set up and have a sand bed, I have a pair of mated clowns, green chromis, orange anthias. What would be best to help with eating algae on sand and rocks. Would appreciate in put. Was told a tang but see where they recommend 100 gallon.

 

[gar732]

I would identify the type of algae that you have before you buy any fish as some algae no fish will eat. Are you running gfo or do you have any type of nutrient export? If not I would suggest that you look into that first.

 

[rjcranor]

I have a fluval filter and use the fluval phosphate remover Its a red and green like hair algae on sand. Awhile back I had bought some stuff for a coral beauty. The angel died and the chuppala or whatever it was is spreading.

 

[gar732]

Oh, so it's a macro algae that you add yourself? How often do you change the PO4 remover? Manualy remove as much as you can of the the algae and change out the PO4 remover. I've heard of people keeping tomini tangs in tanks that size but I've also head that they are hit or miss with some algae. The general consensus is that canister filters are nitrate factories, you might want to consider removing it all together but not all at once if you've got bio media in it. There are quite a dew people that have successful sumpless systems.

 

[rjcranor]

Ive done that and increased water changes, the stuff in my filter is supposed to be good for 3 months and just changed it 2 weeks ago. But red and green algae has already started building up on sand again. I switched to sand from crushed coral in january have been battling algae on sand since was red then went to green now I have both.