What eats Bubble Algea?

[Arati]

Or any other suggestions, All that is working for me is manual removal and its a losing battle.

would a UV sterilizer help?

My specs are 65g reef 30g sump Chaeto ball, ATI BM 200, weakly ro/di water changes. DSB. about 100lbs of LR.

Nitrates are undetactable but im sure they are there. I tried a phosban reactor but it has no effect on the bubble algea also I run a little carbon cup.

I have no other algea no other problems but this bubble algea is tuff!

thanks for any help!

[James77]

Emerald crabs are always advised, but all the ones I tried walked right past every bubble.

I have not tried them, but the Red Sea Sailfin Tang(Desjardini) is supposed to like eating it.

I ended up breaking down my entire tank and scrubbing it off every piece of rock- which was then progressivley dunked in 3 buckets of water. I did a 100% watewr change and thoroughly cleaned the tank. That was ~2 years ago, and I have not seen it since.

[Dslywka]

Trying an emerald crab or 2 yet?

[cloak]

I've seen an Atlantic Blue and a Red Sea sailfin tang eat it first hand. The emerald crabs didn't seem to notice.

FWIW.

[James77]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15187514#post15187514 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by cloak
I've seen an Atlantic Blue and a Red Sea sailfin tang eat it first hand. The emerald crabs didn't seem to notice.

FWIW.

How do they eat it :)- do they suck in the whole bubble or just tear at it? What size bubbles do they go after?

[cloak]

All sizes. They would tear right through it like it was nori on a clip.

[Arati]

I have tried The emerald crabs, but I havent seen any of them eating it and if they are its not enough.

Im hesitant to put a tang in my tank is only 65g but I may have to , im getting desperate.

[jg900rr]

emerald crabs are suppose to do the trick but as everybody else said ive never seen them touch it

[jmoney]

this was how bad my tank got...

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1625319

I ended up pulling out half the rock and scrubbing the rest, there is still some there, but its now when they get big enough for me to pull them off I get them and it hasn't started to re-grow...read the thread I tried all kinds of stuff

[SgtHartman1]

I have a purple tang that is eating it like candy. I have gone through several emerald crabs and have not had any luck with them either.

[mdavis735]

i have never physically seen an emerald crab eat it,but i have had my tank a little over a year.had an emerald crab from week 1.i never saw any bubble algae.i even put a few small rocks i bought from an lfs in there that had a small amount of it on them.it never lasted and never spread.within the last 2 or 3 months i noticed the crab had dissappeared.now i am starting to see bubble algae pop up.

[dknuckles]

I see my Emerald eat BA all the time.

[BFG]

I've got a juvenile Vlamingi tang went after the bubble algae the moment it was introduced into my 120g. I didn't purchase the said tang, got it for free when a friend of mine bought the whole tank set from a lfs that was closing down and his wifey doesn't like the look of the tang.

[heyfredyourhat]

My white cheek tang loves it. I try to grow it in my fuge for him. He eats cheato but prefers BA!