algae problem

[swaquarim]

my tank is full of algae i have cleaned the glass and added a sally light foot and other algae eating crabs.its helped but not much.anything i can do to help .

 

[bbuck_camelback]

what type of algae you got? I have not owned a crab in nearly 2 years. I find that snails do a better job with most types of algae and they don`t try to kill each other.

 

[hondo]

the excess algae is due to too many nutrients in the water (nitrates, phosphates, ect). Adding clean up crew to feed off it is not the whole answer to the problem. Test for both Nitrates and Phosphates. There are several things you can do to reduce the nitrates and phosphates in your tank (reduce feeding, reduce bioload, add a DSB, add refugium, change filtration, ect) to know what your problem is please answer the following questions.
Do you test for Nitrates and Phosphates, if so what are the results
what size tank do you have.
What is the filtration
What fish are in the tank
What is your feeding schedule and what food do you feed them.
how often do you do water changes

 

[swaquarim]

i have all hair algae and amworking on getting my nitrates down 50 gal FO,filtration is some form of tetra tech (forgot which),@ dominoes 1 clown 1cherubfish and 1 wrasse,and i have been feeding them once in the afternoon do to nitrates