Trapping Fox Face
 

I'm entertaining the idea of getting a very small one spot fox face to help with my algae issues. I certainly couldn't have it in my system for very long. I'm not sure how quickly they grow, but at a max size of 7" inches that is just waaaaaay too much fish for my already pretty heavily stocked system (which will be officially overstocked when everything reaches adult size).

Are they easy to trap? Would nori clipped into a fish trap be sufficient to entice one if algae is very limited? I am completely against tearing my display apart to get one out.

Your tank is a new start up correct?
One thing I learned with new tanks is that new startups (under 6 months old) usually get a really nasty algae outbreak a few months in and as quickly as it appeares it's gone. With a tank your size a handful of large turbo snails should do the trick. No use buying a fish you KNOW will be unhappy in your tank if there are other alternatives.

+1 and also try 3% peroxide dosing it helped me in my 50g

This is a new display, with new rocks and a new sandbed. I'm not worried about the "new tank" algaes . . . Those will pass.

I'm worried about two highly invasive algaes from hell that I've got in here, which are not "new tank algaes."

I have four Mexican Turbos, 16 Spiny Astrea, and one Tuxedo urchin. I'm spot injecting 10mls of 3% H202 into algae patches 1-2 times a day. I'm was upping my mag with Tech M (which my snails really don't like . . . I suspect it will kill them), i'm bringing up my alk to 12dkh (a new suggestion someone made to me), and I'm picking out the stuff I can. The snails do not eat the two "devil algaes" though the urchin does.

I'm not worried about fish being "happy." I'm pretty sure it is an emotion they don't experience. I see no reason why a small Fox Face could not thrive in this system as a juvi, however. If it could be easily trapped (I still don't have an answer to this) I would happily pass it on to another local reefer (along with two or three Mexican Turbos) when I was done with it.

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If you don't care whether the fish in your tank are happy why are you in this hobby?

And, why do you demand other fish keepers answer your questions?

Anyway the answer no you can't

What are the two invasive algae? Why don't you remove them by hand or remove the rock that they grow on? You stated this is a new beginner tank.

What kind are the "evil algae"?

I find anthropomorphism highly amusing.

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Oh, ok, I'll play.

What is the clasiification of the algaeis marineus that is taking over your tankus?
Don't tell me it is the feared coitus interruptus algae!!!

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