Bubble Algea Destroyers - Central NJ

bcarrasqui · Jul 24, 2024

goody said:
These guys are workhorses and have really cleaned my tank up of almost all algae (not just bubble) as I try to bring up my no3 and po4 from bottoming out. They have not bothered any coral and when on or near one they were just cleaning up any algae on frag plug. My tank is lps and sps.

thats awesome, would love to get rid of mine, its getting out of control... did you order males or females? going to place an orderf

goody · Jul 24, 2024

bcarrasqui said:
thats awesome, would love to get rid of mine, its getting out of control... did you order males or females? going to place an orderf

I didn't specify and not sure if you can. I thought I ended up with 4 male 1 female because one was noticeably smaller, but all of them have small claws so I might have 5 males.

nano reef · Jul 24, 2024

I need snails and have a very bad bubble algae. (It came back after I removed the rocks and scrubbed them) The problem is I put 6 snails in my frag tank and they all died. I added a few more and so far hanging in there. I added 4 trochus that were not so cheap to! Cats eyes as well! I thought the snails would consume diatoms because thats whats going on in my newly cycled frag tank. I guess that what killed them though. My po4 was up to 0.17 so maybe that was it or had something to do with it.

Can anyone recommend snails that can navigate 2 inch pieces of rubble and be able to right themselves if they fall off a piece? Thats what on the floor of frag tank since I have no sump? That could have been why they died. I have 2 small florida turbos now but they seem to only want to stay on glass but so far alive!

I am wondering If i should try to hammer the rubble into smaller pieces but lots of 2 inch bacteria balls that will probably just fall apart.

If anyone has advice on that I would appreciate it as well!

bcarrasqui · Jul 25, 2024

nano reef said:
I need snails and have a very bad bubble algae. (It came back after I removed the rocks and scrubbed them) The problem is I put 6 snails in my frag tank and they all died. I added a few more and so far hanging in there. I added 4 trochus that were not so cheap to! Cats eyes as well! I thought the snails would consume diatoms because thats whats going on in my newly cycled frag tank. I guess that what killed them though. My po4 was up to 0.17 so maybe that was it or had something to do with it.

Can anyone recommend snails that can navigate 2 inch pieces of rubble and be able to right themselves if they fall off a piece? Thats what on the floor of frag tank since I have no sump? That could have been why they died. I have 2 small florida turbos now but they seem to only want to stay on glass but so far alive!

I am wondering If i should try to hammer the rubble into smaller pieces but lots of 2 inch bacteria balls that will probably just fall apart.

If anyone has advice on that I would appreciate it as well!

Try contacting Reef Cleaners, they're very helpful and knowledgeable. Great descriptions on their website of all the different snails and crabs and what they clean also.

VintageReefer · Jul 25, 2024

I added 2 pithos to my 75g and they ate 90% of the bubble algae, all that they could get to. Then they started eating acans and I caught one pithos in the branches of my holy grail torch. I don’t know what he was doing in there but it’s a very out of reach place and there is no algae in the branches. I couldn’t take the risk plus they were destroying my acans. I rehomed them both