Algae Eater???

[skilter]

Does anyone know what can eat Chaeto or macro algae??? i have alot in my tank and im getting tired of constantly having to prune it.
thanks!

[Geoff]

for that sized tank you are pretty much out of luck. the bigger the algae the bigger the herbivore needed to eat it.

sounds like you have a phosphate problem. you can try a phosban reactor, you can get a better skimmer, or fine tune it better. are you siphoning out all of the detritus when doing water changes? what kind of substrate do you have?

G~

[skilter]

Thanks for your reply, well my algae problem, isnt really a problem... since i downgraded the size of my tank from 29g to the nanocube 12, some of the rocks that i had used in my refugium had algae growing on it, but i didnt think much of it because it wasnt much at the time. i added that rock to the main display portion of my cube and before long it had attached it self to other rocks, its really no biggie, i can continue to groom it... it doesnt grow that fast and all of my levels are at a norm, i have a very small bioload because i have no fish, my tank is devoted to reef. i was just wondering if there were a crab or shrimp or snail out there i was unaware of that could "snack" on some of this stuff...
-thanks again.

[skilter]

oh and i dont have a skimmer, i just do about a 2 gal h2o change weekly, i have crushed coral as my substrate, and i have no detritus if so very little because my rock was already cured coming from other established tanks.