Clean-up crew to deter algae

[Evolutionz]

how about bi-color blenny?

[Tian85]

I am using snails and just bought Hector's goby. Hope this goby can help clear up some algae.

Bro, where you got the goby?

[julius]

Ah Beng has both rainford's and Hector's gobies. Call before going

[rainmalawi]

Bro, where you got the goby?

Got it from Ah Beng at Pasir Ris Farm. My hector's goby is eating algae off the rocks. But because the fish is pretty small, I guess it may not be of much help. And my hector will fight with my rainford which is very similar in appearance. Therefore, I think the hector will fight their own kind so keeping more than one to eat up some algae may not be feasible.

[Evolutionz]

how big are they? good for my 34L tank? anyone tried bi-color blenny?

[rainmalawi]

My Hector goby about 2 inches in length. I put it in my 4 ft tank and can see it picking off algae everyday. Again, the rate of picking algae may not be fast enough for such a small fish.

[CY2010]

Can try seahare n small urchin as well.

[Cruzer]

I find yellow tang very useful in clearing algae. Cleared most of the hair algae on my tank within a week.

[Kelvin81]

Agreed on yellow tang. But must get the hawaii yellow tang.

[Venezia]

abalones need cooler water to thrive

[rudy17]

Snails are the best, followed by cleaner shrimps!

[artxakis]

for my 3 ft tank i think those purple turban shape snails does a lot of work on my glass walls. the long mouth snails seems pretty slow n useless. i got an abalone its also working hard but really slow n it will alone appear once in awhile. the best one dat sifts my sand bed is the greyish black striped starfish. better than the red or snake looking type

[Evolutionz]

i have 2 asterae snails in my 34L tank and its been cleaning up brown algae in my tank very well.. one even got to the extend of climbing on to the output flow of my hang on filter and eat all the brown algae there within 2 days.. at first i was still worried why it decided to climb so high up..

[metaphor89]

My hermit crab doesnt touch my snails..maybe i am lucky =D, i am facing hair algae issue too, tinking of getting algae blenny izit good? or hector goby better?

[smallbutmighty]

Hmm my hector goby eat the zoe coral... He bite till a hole liao..

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[evomclaren]

my turbo snails does the job so far no algae bloom

[Endorrachua]

agreeable, turbo snail damn deligence workers. put 3 into my tanks, cleaned up my rocks sweeswee in 2 days time.

[tropic]

I dont have much luck with snails. Always ended up dead within a short period.

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[metaphor89]

i got a algae blenny.. but i dun see it eating any hair algae on my liverock.. it had been there for 2 week plus le, i dun feed it even.. duno wat it ate..lol

[gambitz]

blenny's is not reef safe?

[blusafe]

For micro-algae use pods, lots of pods. They do not mess around when cleaning glass if you don't mid having little white critters everywhere.