Ocean In a Box Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 What helps you keep your tank the cleanest in regards to keeping algae down. My wifes poor little nano. She just cant seem to keep the hair algae down. I told her she needs a better clean up crew. All she has is a LMB and a few hermits, the rest are corals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lowman Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 I like a variety of snails, cerith, trochus, margarita, nassarius, are my faves. Blue leg hermits, and the scarlet reef hermits are the best hermits in my experience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siskiou Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 When it comes to hairier algae, my sally lightfoot has been the best! Beats any emerald crab and hermit I've ever had. They supposedly can turn nasty, though, so I'm watching mine carefully. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoseCityAquarium Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 I like to put a thick bed of sand in the nano cubes for stability along with white leg hermits sally lightfoot emerald crab, sand sifting cucumber, margarita snails, nassarius snails, and astreas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowpunk Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 can't let them starve but a brown sea hair(maybe blue for a nano) would be the best bet. They will mow it down like no other. They will die if the food runs really low though so be prepared to trade him off or put him in another tank with lots of algae build up. I've battled this stuff since I got my 75g and sally's have done little to nothing for me. Emeralds put a good dent in it, red legged hermits help a little, but the seahair is a force to be reckoned with compaired to all the others. Browns tend to come in a lot bigger then blue spotted though so blue may be more appropriate. Rose City got me a brown that was like 8":eek:. RIP, he didn't make it through the heat this summer. My only loss.... Hope it helps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finch6013 Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 I have a turtle conch that keeps the sand bed in my solana, in prestine condition. that thing is like a lawn mower Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ocean In a Box Posted November 1, 2009 Author Share Posted November 1, 2009 All good stuff. We did try a sea hair, but it died before it ate a thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jptrson Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 Sea Hares need to be acclimated over several hours. I keep them in our frag tank, and have lost very few. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CA2OR Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 I agree with the Sea Hares....I didn't acclimate mine for hours when I got it....matter fact I didn't acclimate it at all. Lived fine until I ran out of algea. Then my serpant star ate him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowpunk Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 All good stuff. We did try a sea hair' date=' but it died before it ate a thing.[/quote'] Something else I noticed about the blues(since I have had a few) is they will eat eat eat, then they "lay eggs" or something and die off a few weeks after. 2 times this has happened to me. it lays down what looks like mini intestines or something then shortly after I find it dead(scratch). I haven't had that happen with the brown ones though, they seem to live very well... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grassi Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 Be careful about putting crabs in nanos.. it's great to get rid of algae but often when that is gone there isn't enough in the system to keep them full so some of them will turn to corals. Not always, but often.. that's why I don't put any more than 2 hermits and no emeralds/etc in my biocube. Also, nano-reef.com is an amazing resource for fixing nano issues! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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