What eats bad algaes like green algae, but does not touch my good corline algae?

[serpentar]

I rencently setup a 20 gallon long Reef tank and bought some live rock off Craigslist. The upside was it was cheap & has some of the better coraline i have ever seen... the downside is that it was being taken over by green algae. I would like to get rid of just the green algae but not my good algaes. I have done research on emerald crabs, nudi's, sea hares, turbo snails, etc. What is the answer to my problem? Thanks

 

[bellanavis]

A seahare would do the job.

 

[serpentar]

So the sea hare will only stick to the green algae?
Thats what i was thinking, put my LFS does not have any nor does this site or if they do i can't find what category they are in. Anyways, also having concerns about the fact that the sea hare would be a one time temporary fix, not a regular member of the tank that keeps it down. Afterall, do not want the hare to mow through it all & then starve to death, could sell after it does the job. thanks for the reply!

 

[teen]

a few mexican turbo snails and a queen conch will clean it up and leave the coraline alone.

 

[frankthetank]

I'll second the mexican turbos... they are algae eating mothers. Hermits are pretty good at this too. I have two mexicans and two queen conch in my 46g.

 

[serpentar]

all right, my reef is only a 20 long with 25 lbs of LR, so get 2 mexican turbos, 1 queen conch & some hermits? Will the queen eat my coraline?

 

[frankthetank]

Not to my knowledge. I have two and I don't see them eat my coraline.

 

[20galfowlr]

if youre just setting it up, i would get a 5 gallon bucket with SW in it, get a toothbrush and scrub the crap out of it, this seems to work for me when i do my monthly tank scrubs

 

[flywithpride]

my lr came with hair too i clean it in a 5 gal bucket then got a couple of turbo snails to keep it down. the only thing is time the scrub with a water change ad wash the lr with the tank water in the bucket before u discard the water

 

[fish3]

turbos

 

[doodle1800]

Turn off your lights for 3 days, get some turbo snails.