Fish that eat caulerpa and hair algae

[GPhiAce]

What is a good fish that will eat feather or razor caulerpa and hair algea, or just the caulerpa? I was thinking of a yellow tang, would that be good enough to clean up a little??

[timnnell]

The tang should eat up the caulerpa. As for the hair algae, that's hard stuff to find someone to readily eat it. You best bet is more water changes.

[extreme5450]

any bristle tooth tang will eat the hair algae and all tangs love the rest

[Lightsluvr]

Foxface Rabbitfish are great herbivores as well...

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[mattsilvester]

I have found the foxface to be the most reliable lawn mower, but there are of course no gaurantees

[SkyPapa]

Yep, Foxfaces work for me for caulerpa.
My Purple tang or LMB wont touch it.

[jda]

What size of tank? Rabbitfish and tangs aren't a good idea if you have a smaller tank. ...and you have to feed them after they eat the algae creating a revolving door. Any of the bristletooth tangs are pretty good algae eaters.

Turbo snails will mow it down and might be a better choice. If you let me know what size of tank that you have, as well as how much rock, I can take a guess as to how many you will need.

[650-IS350]

foxface to be the most reliable lawn moweragreed

[JamesJR]

what are your water parameters? The problem with algae is that it is because of excess nutrients and adding a fish won't necessarily solve that problem. I would probably consider getting a sea urchin.