sps and valonia

[JOSHUAB]

My tank is starting to look pretty good, except the valonia(bubble algea) is getting out of hand, how do I eliminate this stuff in my tank???
TIA, Josh

[Ludwigia73]

Emerald crabs seem to love the stuff. Problem is, they pop it and it produces spores. Good thing is, they like the tinier ones better. Then they pop them, and I don't think the spores are released when they're that tiny. It's cool to watch the progression. The large ones very slowly disappear, along with smaller ones, then a bloom of tiny ones, and they disappear.

[TippyToeX]

Manual removal along with strict control of the nutrients (and any po4) in your tank should do the trick. :)

[JOSHUAB]

so would a phosphate reactor help????

[JOSHUAB]

What about a Naso Tang, I have heard that they are supposed to eat the stuff, I don't have any experience w/a Naso, just what I heard.

[Lunchbucket]

i thought bubble algae grew even if water is pretty clean? i have had luck w/ emeralds

also mine seems to go in cycles. i'll have a lot of it then it is practically non-existant then it will come back w/ a lot of it. might go w/ the time my emeralds die and i buy new ones though

Lunchbucket

[SHOmuchFUN]

I'd love to find a way to rid valonia, but unfortunately I have learned to live with it... It DOES hapen in cycles with me as well. I have a valonia farm in my overflows. One pieve is as large as a small bird's egg :eek2:

I believe I have pretty decent water conditions and my skimmer works very well. Just can't seem to get rid of the stuff.

[njfish77]

yea in one of my tanks i had not much of it but it was there and i bought an emerald crab and he took care of the job. Ive heard they were 50-50 coral pickers but i tried em. 4 months later he nipped the whole head/feather off my coco worm. So i fed him to a friends pink tail trigger :D lol. Luckily the head grw back