no more green algae.... good or bad?

viodea · 04/29/2008, 08:20 PM

I had pretty bad algae problem about a week ago. Hair algae totally covered my 2 overflow box and rocks. A week after I put 5 turbo snails there, nothing is left. All my rocks a clean of any algae. I used to see lots of "live" on my rock, little tubs with critters and tunicates. Amount of pods have reduced.

Is it a bad thing without any algae? The turbos are now chewing on my coralines algae. The only thing they don't touch is the dark (block, very dark purple) color algae.

Do I need to do something about this?

viodea · 04/29/2008, 08:24 PM

Correction, I actually put the turbo in a little over 2 weeks ago.

bertoni · 04/29/2008, 08:49 PM

That sounds fine to me, unless you want to preserve all the coralline. The animals might starve over time, I suppose.

viodea · 04/30/2008, 09:50 AM

I don't want them starved to death. Should I take a few of my turbo out or add more food when feeding to help algae growth?

WaterKeeper · 04/30/2008, 10:04 AM

That is usually a good thing. You'll be suprised how much hidden algae snails can find. When you add that Tang to the display make sure that you add some Nori ,or other algae based food, as Tangs are mainly Vegetarians. Gee, I should of had a V-8!

viodea · 04/30/2008, 04:03 PM

Great!!! I feel better now. I was so worry snails are going to starved to dead soon.

I'm feeding yellow tang 2x3" nori once a day on a clip. I'll keep doing the same thing when I move him to display.

04/29/2008, 08:20 PM	#1
viodea Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Kansas Posts: 520	no more green algae.... good or bad? I had pretty bad algae problem about a week ago. Hair algae totally covered my 2 overflow box and rocks. A week after I put 5 turbo snails there, nothing is left. All my rocks a clean of any algae. I used to see lots of "live" on my rock, little tubs with critters and tunicates. Amount of pods have reduced. Is it a bad thing without any algae? The turbos are now chewing on my coralines algae. The only thing they don't touch is the dark (block, very dark purple) color algae. Do I need to do something about this?

04/29/2008, 08:49 PM	#3
bertoni RC Mod Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mountain View, CA, USA Posts: 88,616	That sounds fine to me, unless you want to preserve all the coralline. The animals might starve over time, I suppose. __________________ Jonathan Bertoni

04/30/2008, 10:04 AM	#5
WaterKeeper Bogus Information Expert Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: SW Ohio Posts: 16,147	That is usually a good thing. You'll be suprised how much hidden algae snails can find. When you add that Tang to the display make sure that you add some Nori ,or other algae based food, as Tangs are mainly Vegetarians. Gee, I should of had a V-8! __________________ "Leading the information hungry reefer down the road to starvation" Tom Current Tank Info: 130 Now out of service and a 29

04/29/2008, 08:24 PM	#2
viodea Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Kansas Posts: 520	Correction, I actually put the turbo in a little over 2 weeks ago.

04/30/2008, 09:50 AM	#4
viodea Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Kansas Posts: 520	I don't want them starved to death. Should I take a few of my turbo out or add more food when feeding to help algae growth?

04/30/2008, 04:03 PM	#6
viodea Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Kansas Posts: 520	Great!!! I feel better now. I was so worry snails are going to starved to dead soon. I'm feeding yellow tang 2x3" nori once a day on a clip. I'll keep doing the same thing when I move him to display.