MrScuito Posted April 28, 2010 Share Posted April 28, 2010 Here are some pics of my "Black Limpit". I had a sudden massive hair algae out break but its quickly comming under control. Mostly due to his appitite for it. Notice him/her cleaning the candy cane so gently and never even budges it even though hes bigger, its not sucured and he goes all over and around it. If anybody finds where to buy these guys please let me know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danik Posted April 28, 2010 Share Posted April 28, 2010 one time i had a lot of them in my old 120g tank. but they never liked hair algae for me. they would always come out at night. till one day i just removed them and fed it to my mantis. i was afraid they would eat my corals ;P 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrScuito Posted April 28, 2010 Author Share Posted April 28, 2010 mine used to come out only at night but now its comes out all the time and from what I have seen I dont think it eats anything but algaes (maybe not encrusting). and most of my zoas/polyps and frogspawn/torch dont even react or close when being cleaned by him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandinga Posted April 28, 2010 Share Posted April 28, 2010 Are you doing anything to get that hair under control? RO...Phosphate absorber, etc... cool limpet! I dig those guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impur Posted April 28, 2010 Share Posted April 28, 2010 Looks like a scutus. Cool critters!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrScuito Posted April 28, 2010 Author Share Posted April 28, 2010 yeah I'm sure it was cause a left a trap in my tank for 3 days with a lota food to catch a six-line, and I forgot to turn the sump back on when I fed them after I caught the six line untill late the next day, and then I forgot to turn the skimmer back on for 2 days after that. I'm back on schedule now though and increased my WC from 7g/w to 10g/w, added a bag of cardon to sump, lights from 14hr on to 18hr on exp. cause I'm short a light at the moment, skimmer 24/7, feed fish everyother day, and added 6 asstd snails, 6 scarlet herms and, an emerald crab. I went from 0% hair and cyno to 98% rock and sand corverage in less then 3 days its been about 10 days now since I started my retaliation and I'm down to 25%-30% coverage. all my newly uncoverd rock is a real pretty pastle purple and pink unlike before (bonus). I do have a spot that turn red with cyno. Not sure how to deal with that yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrScuito Posted April 28, 2010 Author Share Posted April 28, 2010 Looks like a scutus. Cool critters!! yep! Do you know where to buy them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impur Posted April 28, 2010 Share Posted April 28, 2010 No sorry. I bet Garrett could get em though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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