Algae remover for sandbed - brown algae

[Marinesavy]

Anybody can list fishes or invertebrates that can effectively remove brown algae from sandbed ?

[blueheaven]

Get a black cuke

Those guys are interesting to watch and work well too

[Marinesavy]

sorry.. what is black cuke, can't find it in www.liveaquaria.com

[Marinesavy]

oh... is it black sea cucumber ?

where can i get it ? or you have one for sale

[Qxnviolet]

Its a black see cucumber....theres a few at reef n nature at pasir ris

[prec]

sand dollar does a good job too!

[zephyros]

1st try to id the alage, is it diatoms?

if it is diatoms, there isnt much that fish/invert can do lar

[bluezing]

my hermit crabs do eat those diatoms on sandbed...

but nowadays..dont see them working..getting lazy..

must dock their pay riaoz~

[Marinesavy]

brown algae.... some hairy and green one on the rock.

What you consider that ?

[PerculaClownfish]

you should buy the goby species as they are real gd at sand filtering..

[PerculaClownfish]

Suggest to you 2 spot goby s they do not cover the rock with sand..Jireh marine as them too..!!abt $10.00-$12.00

[Panzz]

sand sifting gobies or sand sifting stars are all great at cleaning your sandbed.

[PerculaClownfish]

So how is your problem solved?

[Qxnviolet]

Suggest to you 2 spot goby s they do not cover the rock with sand..Jireh marine as them too..!!abt $10.00-$12.00

Hrmz, try get only 1 though. My bigger one chased and attacked the smaller one. Maybe i didn't put them in together?

[Marinesavy]

Got a sand sifting gobies from Parsir Ris yeserday... It has been hiding in the same spot since yeserday night till this morning. Is it normal that it trying to get into the new environment or somethings ??

[Qxnviolet]

Got a sand sifting gobies from Parsir Ris yeserday... It has been hiding in the same spot since yeserday night till this morning. Is it normal that it trying to get into the new environment or somethings ??

Erm, i think its normal for all fishes to hide for a while when they have just been introduced into a new enviroment....has it started eating?

[Marinesavy]

not really, it suppose to eat algae from the sandbed.... since is hiding at the same spot, i presume it is not eating anythings.

feed some brimp shrimp yeserday night.. fishes eat but not the gobies.

[Qxnviolet]

not really, it suppose to eat algae from the sandbed.... since is hiding at the same spot, i presume it is not eating anythings.

feed some brimp shrimp yeserday night.. fishes eat but not the gobies.

Ah well, i guess u shldn't worry too much as its only been a day....im sure ur gobies are ok...

[Marinesavy]

hopfully, i pray for it... i hate to see fishes died even it was a $1 damsel fish. I wish everything go well.

Now i am even praying harder for the orangespot flyfish. I like this fish when i saw in Parsir Ris yeserday. I didn't know the bio of this fish. I like it and so was my wife.. before buying i confirmed with the shop owner that it eat brimp shrimp.

... regret buying not because i don't like the fish, is that it might lose its life because of me

[Qxnviolet]

hopfully, i pray for it... i hate to see fishes died even it was a $1 damsel fish. I wish everything go well.

Now i am even praying harder for the orangespot flyfish. I like this fish when i saw in Parsir Ris yeserday. I didn't know the bio of this fish. I like it and so was my wife.. before buying i confirmed with the shop owner that it eat brimp shrimp.

... regret buying not because i don't like the fish, is that it might lose its life because of me

Erm, i think the actual name of that species is FileFish..... Anyway, best of luck for both your fishes!~ Hrmz, guess you should just try entice it to eat brine shrimp 1st....got no experience in this fish....sry.

[MAG]

hi good day.saw yo posting abo brown algae on the sand bed.

well actually i hv the same problem too (in2 3rd week of cycling-4fts) but after i introduce the black cuke/cucumber the brown algae all gone.

its such a good worker and also very interesting to wtc.

try it out.

kindly sms me if need further info as i dont log in2 web often.

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