What do you have for CUC Doug? Often all it takes if some beefing up and the algae will be gone, not always a need to mess with parameters.

Sorry Mindy. Not sure what CUC is?

Clean up crew...snails, hermits etc

Oh. DOH ! :lol:

I have lots of trochus snails, several red leg hermits & blues. The algae is to long for the snails. I have a few emeralds who love to eat the algae but they can't keep up to that much. I also have a sea hare that likes glass hard algae instead of what its suppose to be eating.

No fish, as Im in my 2nd month fishless from the velvet disaster. I have 6 shrimp which I feed daily plus the feed keeps the biological alive.

It something would eat it besides the emeralds I would add a bunch of them but don't think thats going to happen.

http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/i...ps69qtv4w4.jpg

Here,s an example. As seen in the pic, its starting to affect my corals. :sad: For whatever reason the coral is not focused correct but algae is, so you get the idea.

Gimme some numbers Doug! :p

I'd be suggesting something that looks like this (this is your 50-gallon right??):

15 Scarlet Hermits
5 Trochus
5 Turbo
3 Spiny Astraea
3 Pyramid Astraea
6 Ring Cowrie
6 Nerite
6 Tongan Nassarius
1 Fighting Conch

The key is variety. :) Don't buy the small-type Nassarius or Cerith snails with hermits in the tank - they are just too easy pickings for hermits. My Scarlet Hermits have never touched any of the above suggested snails. I have all of those in my tanks for years. You will probably have to remove 20% of the above numbers once they've trimmed out all the algae.

I have to skip the last two as its bare bottom.

Uh yeah, skip the sand dwellers. :) I'd add CUC and wait a few weeks to see if that makes the difference or not. It doesn't cost much, and it's easy. :D

Not the easiest to buy unless one of my friends is going by JL.

So I have a CUC order at CC waiting for the rest to come in next week.

Mindy, have you ever used the red leg crabs, similar to the blues, instead of scarlets?