Claw Atticas
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
- Joined
- Jul 3, 2008
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- 41
Right now I have 15 Nassarius snails, about 15 Astrea snails, 1 BIG Mexican Turbo Snail (He's bigger than my Coral Beauty!), and 1 Emerald Mithrax Crab, but I'm still having a problem with hair algae. I'm planning on another water change soon (After I'm done with my current college assignments due soon), and also planning on taking the offending hair algae rocks into their own bucket, scrub them with a toothbrush in a bucket of tank water (Could do that with the water from the water change), but I'd like for hair algae 2.0 to not break out as bad... It's grown too large for Astrea snails to touch, and the Mexican Turbo Snail hasn't been working hard enough (Right now he's trying to eat the lime green coralline on the back wall that I've been growing, instead of hunting for food on the live rock).
I was also wanting some hermit crabs to add to my tank, and was wondering if any are better hair algae eaters than others, or if they would work any better than the snails. (I love the look of Sally Lightfoots better than Emerald Mithrax, but I've heard they're aggressive, and I'm afraid they'll go after my pacific cleaners. I doubt they'd be able to catch my firefish or hawkfish, though.)
Current fish:
1 Longnose Hawkfish, 1 Coral Beauty Angelfish, 1 Ocellaris Clownfish, 1 Firefish
Current inverts:
2 Pacific Cleaner Shrimp, 1 Emerald Mithrax Crab, 15 Astrea Turbo Snails, 15 Nassarius Snails, 1 Brittle Star
Current coral:
Galaxea Coral, Xenia Coral
Current plants:
2 Shaving Brushes (in display), Chaetomorpha (fuge), 9 Red Mangroves (fuge)
I was also wanting some hermit crabs to add to my tank, and was wondering if any are better hair algae eaters than others, or if they would work any better than the snails. (I love the look of Sally Lightfoots better than Emerald Mithrax, but I've heard they're aggressive, and I'm afraid they'll go after my pacific cleaners. I doubt they'd be able to catch my firefish or hawkfish, though.)
Current fish:
1 Longnose Hawkfish, 1 Coral Beauty Angelfish, 1 Ocellaris Clownfish, 1 Firefish
Current inverts:
2 Pacific Cleaner Shrimp, 1 Emerald Mithrax Crab, 15 Astrea Turbo Snails, 15 Nassarius Snails, 1 Brittle Star
Current coral:
Galaxea Coral, Xenia Coral
Current plants:
2 Shaving Brushes (in display), Chaetomorpha (fuge), 9 Red Mangroves (fuge)