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Scrumf
09/30/2006, 05:34 PM
I removed all of my bio balls from my tank 180 FOWLR. So now i got crazy green algae on my glass. I also have this crazy brown and green like hair algae just swaying in the water. I need a cleen up crew badly!! I'm just afaid of the fish eating them let list my fish and tell me if a clean up crew would work. Maybe some shrimps,crab's i know snails would work but what kind.

1 Dragon Wrasse
1 Spotted Grouper
1 Bi-Color Parrot Fish
1 Snowflake Eel He's the one that consern's me
3 Blue Reef Chromis

Thank's

kraze3
09/30/2006, 06:07 PM
id recommend a fer turbos and other assorted snails and some hermiots of you want to go the hermit route. I had a parrot fish for a while, petsitting for a friend. I seemed to have some hermit deaths in that time and i think it was him, but cant be sure. My snowflake doesnt touch my snails or hermits. he just wacks them out of the way when he is annoyed from them walking on his tail.

bertoni
09/30/2006, 10:34 PM
You could try adding some snails and see how long they last. I like Trochus, cerith, and Stomatella,myself. Another thought would be to grow and harvest a macroalga to try to outcompete the pests.