davjbeas

I had a good experience with www.reefcleaners.org

I had a very positive experience with www.reefcleaners.org. My tank had bubble algae in several areas. I sent a message to customer service asking what would be suggested and John responded to me that I should try 10 Pitho crabs. So I ordered online what was recommended. I got overnight shipping and each crab arrived in a separate bag. The package arrived around 9:30 in the morning. I followed the acclimation instructions. Today I have almost no bubble algae. If you are looking for a clean up crew they have anything you could ask for. David B.

Looks like it will be very beautiful.

OK. Thanks

I was wondering if there are still t-shirts available Thanks

Snails sure can get around. I am glad that the pump on the skimmer started back up. Sometimes pumps don't start up after being off for a bit.

Today I removed the protein skimmer to clean it. The skimmer had not been cleaned for several months. I noticed that the output of the skimmer was very little which is not normal. There were 2 baby snails blocking 2 of the 4 holes where the pump intake is. Now the skimmer is functioning as it should.

Thanks for al the attention. I decided to add 4 turbo snails and an emerald crab. I did blast the rocks and changed the filter socks on Friday.

Is there a particular brand you recommend?

It is good to know at least what the algae is. I did not know about that medication. Is that med reef safe in that it does not harm corals? I agree it is not bad enough right now to go that way. I currently have 2 camel snails, and a lot of baby snails. I have been doing research on reefcleaners.org. I have found that there are lots of options for critters that eat hair algae and bubble algae.

I am changing out the filter socks tomorrow. I will blow the rocks with a power head before changing them. I have lost a tank to hair algae so I don't want it to get out of control. The emerald crab I want to add is for the bubble algae.

I think it looks more like green hair algae. But where I manually removed some with tweezers there are a few strands that I couldn't get and those look like they could be Bryopsis. I am thinking to get 3-5 Mexican turbo snails and an emerald crab(I have some bubble algae).

in one spot it looks like fur. When I removed some with tweezers it looked like very thin threads.

I have this algae popping up in about 10 places. I am looking into getting snails or hermit crabs. Please let me know if you can ID this algae from the pictures. The area is about 1/4" or a little bigger pic 1 by David Beasley, on Flickr pic 2 by David Beasley, on Flickr Thanks for looking

Thanks for the replies. I really appreciate the info. David