Macro algae eating fish?

ringwurm · 01-22-2005, 09:22 PM

I have a nice crop of macro algae in my main tank I would like thin out. I hear tangs will eat it and was wondering what my other choices were?

Greg
Current livestock in my 90g
-Lawnmower blenny
-Royal gramma
- 3 blue green chromis
- black perc

Elmo18 · 01-22-2005, 09:25 PM

Foxface rabbitfishes and almost all the other rabbitfish will devour macroalgae.

- Elmo

MagicMan · 01-23-2005, 12:58 AM

I've got a bunch of grape-vine algae that I have been cultivating to prepare for a blue tang. I had a scopus tang kicked it about six months back and I decided not to get another tang until I had the macro-algae going really well. My son (four years old) was pretty upset when he woke up one morning, ran down to look at the tank, and saw the scopus tang "drifting" near the bottom of the tank. The fact that the emerald brittle star and hermit crabs had already started in on him didn't help much.