Trouble in paradise!!

[jake22]

My tank has been doing great for along time. Now all of a sudden my rocks are growing green hair algae. My sally lightfoot is not doing anything about it. I was thinking of getting a bi-color blenny. Would he help with the algae? Right for corals i have a mushroom rock, yellow polyps and to colonies of button polyps, would he be compatible with the corals? Is there another fish that i can put in a 26 gallon that would do a better job?

 

[sdascher]

I don't have answers for you, but I can tell you what worked with me a year ago...same problem. I was (and still am) new to the saltwater tanks, so I purchased a lot of books, read them and found out one thing they all had in common about eek algae! I placed small hermits crabs in the tank, did a 25% water change twice a month and purchased a good skimmer - bigger than what I needed!! I placed a Seaclone skimmer for up to 100 gal on a 55 gal tank and within 2 to 3 months, all of the algae was gone and it still hasn't come back!! Later I moved a few of the crabs out into another tank, resumed reg. monthly schedule on changing water, but keep the skimmer in place.

 

[jake22]

Thanks for the advice, but can anyone answer my question?

 

[iceburger]

bicolor blenny's arent much of an algea eater,if you want a fish that eats algea, go with the lawnmower blenny, also what sdascher said, little algea hermit crabs really do help, i have 10 in a 10 gallon and they're munchin down on some hair algea, and hopefuly it'll be gone soon...
the bicolor blenny should be fine with your corals...

 

[maxi]

Not many things actually eat hair algea. Hermit crabs will help, but you will a lot to keep up with the fast spreading hair algea. You need to find the cause of the bloom. In my case it was a low alk level. I slowly raised the alk and did weekly water changes. As a last resort, I scrubbed the stuff off the rocks with a small brush. I also added a sponge filter to 1 of my power heads to catch it before it went in my protein skimmer. It took about 3 months but it is finely gone. It is feeding on something. Find out what that is and you should be able to get rid of it.