Keeping a fish-only clean...

[misty927]

Does anyone have any suggestions on keeping a 135 gallon aggressive clean? I have good filtration...30 gallon oceanic sump, uv sterilizer, tunze protein skimmer. All parameters are excellent. Just in the past few days, however, I've been experiencing something which resembles (or is) a diatom bloom. The tank has been established, however, for approximately two years. Question is...without a clean-up crew..what's the best way to maintain an aggressive fish-only tank? The current inhabitant is a zebra moray eel. I'm planning on buying a volitan lion sometime in the near future, however. Any ideas?

 

[topfish]

Hey. I had an algae bloom once, and it took me a long time to find out what was wrong. The prob was that I had sunlight coming from the window in the tank, which made the stinkin algae. So I just put shades up on the window, and Walla! No algae!

 

[aceiswild7]

ya leaving the lights on for to long or natural sunlight tends to do that even to established tanks and also if i were you with a large aggressive tank which ive had but never had the chance to try a cleaner wrasse next time i do one im going to see if it works i always thought it would be cool to see if it could survive and clean the large mean fish

 

[pufferlover]

A Cleaner Wrasse would be a snack for those large mean fish. Altho they do a job (as one did helping my big Porks out thru a Ick outbreak once they were cured they ate it).

 

[misty927]

I have crushed coral...and the hermit idea isn't bad.

 

[dasnake03]

I have large turbo snails,serpant stars,2 burrowing sun stars,and a red general star.They all do a great job on my tank,I never have to put my hand in the tank,except for when my tusk or bird wrasse knock a snail of a rock,other than that the fish leave everything alone.The stars really help in keeping the nitrates down,by cleaning up the detritis.