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Natural predators of cotton candy algae?
Are there any natural predators of cotton candy algae? I just replaced my 2+ year old t5 bulbs and I was having a little bit of an algae problem because of them but I want to get rid of it as fast as possible... TIA...
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I had some in my sump and i'm pretty sure my black long spine urchin ate it, either that or it just went away. Its pretty easy to just pull of the rocks though.
Cotton candy algae is a pink fuzzy algae, usually grows into balls. It's defiantly not as common as red slime though. |
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I have been pulling it off the rocks and it's starting to go away just wondering if there was something else to help it faster...
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I had CCA in my tank and in my fuge bad. I could not find anything that would eat the stuff. What I had to do was remove may sand from my tank, it was only on the sand luckily. I then put boiling water in the sand 3 times to kill it all off. After a good rinsing it went back into the tank. To remove it from my fuge I removed and replaced all the sand and am cooking the rock and rubble that was in the fuge. I now have the lights off in the fuge until my rock is done cooking. I hope this takes care of it in the fuge. I have tried cleaning it out 3 times and had the lights off in the fuge for 3 weeks, soon as I turned the lights on it came back.
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To answer your question, urchins, mexican turbo snails, and foxfaces all eat it. The problem is, it grows faster than things can realistically eat it. Also, things that do eat it often lose a taste for it after a while and you are back to square 1. If you have rocks with it growing, I would recommend removing the rock and setting it outside until the algae is dead.
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Like mentioned, Mexican Turbos and urchins work well, and I have actually had good luck with my yellow tang, even watched it pick it out of the water column.
I have found that that stuff will even grow in low nutrient tanks, but at least it does slow down, so improving water conditions at the same time will help.
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