good algae eating fish?

[jasonkola]

ok I have been looking for a good algae eating fish to add to my 55 g. fowler. I added a lawnmower blenny this week but he dose not eat alot just a nibble her and there. maybe he will eat more after he is settled in more. but I was trying to find another fish good for eating algae. mostly hair algae. I have reat great things about tangs but I think most grow too big for my tank. are there any smaller tangs that might work? if not are there any other good active algae eating fish out there. I have tried snails and dont have much luck keeping them alive for long. I am now restocking my snail population again and crossing my fingers and hoping more than a few will live more than 6 months. I raised my salinity which I was keeping between 1.020 and 1.022. up to 1.024 which I think might be better for the snails survival rate. we will see. so dose any one know of a good algae eating fish I could add to my tank. I would love a tang if there were any tangs out there small enough to add to my tank.

 

[princess8077]

Lawnmower blenny will do the job! I have to feed mine nori sheets now cause he ate up all the algae on the rocks too well!

 

[jasonkola]

I hope so. I let my tank get pretty bad this last year after my snail population dropped to only 2 or 3. he has his work cut out for him or her. we will see. hopefully between the new snails and him it will get that little jungle cleaned up.

 

[it's chuck]

I know you said you were having a hard time keeping snails but my 55 started to get a pretty bad hair algae problem a couple months ago and I put one giant mexican turbo snail in there and he cleaned it up in literaly one week

 

[mcbdz]

The LMB will help. And as for the snails. Make sure you drip acclimate them slowly, they are sincative to the changes in chemistry. Make sure you para are good and manually remove the hair algea so the cuc can manage it for now on. What are your trates and phosphates?

 

[nycbob]

lmb will do the job by itself. my lmb cleaned up the algae on the back wall of my 150 in 2 weeks.

 

[renogaw]

best thing for snails is to stick em to the glass at the top of the tank and let them enter the water as they feel comfey doing it.

 

[ophiura]

Often more fish will only contribute to your problem, not resolve it. The snail deaths were absolutely due to the low specific gravity. Have you looked into other solutions for your algae, including posting parameters, feeding, lighting, etc? There may be something we can help with...but another animal may not.

 

[skipperdz]

Dwarf Angels Do A Good Job Too, Like Eiblis Or Coral Beauties

 

[jasonkola]

Thanks I do have one Coral beauty. She is the only fish I have had for the long run I have had her for like 7 or 8 years now. she dose eat quite a bit off the glass but not enough. my lmb dose seem to be eating more now. and I will soon have a replenished snail population. I was just looking to see if there was a fish I could add that would help clean up. I am thinking of adding another lmb. can more than one be kept in a tank together?

 

[skipperdz]

I Dont Think So...unless They Were Mated Of Course. Do Gobies Eat Alge? If So I Know They Can Go With Blenny's
I Have A Starry Blenny And He Is The Best Algae Hole Puncher There Is Lol