Beverly,
Heh.. TRUST me.. the cleanup crew has been in there for a while..
I have sooooo many snails and hermits its scary.. I dont want to add any more for fear that once I get RID of the algea problem I may not be able to feed them all..
I seriously have over 100 snails, mostly Astrea(about 60 or 70 by now), but also a good supply (20+ each) of cerith, margerita, and nassarius.. plus some trochus, stomatella.. oh.. and 2 of something we were sold as 'turbo snails' but.. well.. dont think that they are after seeing actual turbos at JL..
PLUS... I have like 30 - 50 hermits, blue legged and Zebra..
PLUS... a yellow tang, and a newly purchased lawnmower blenny.
All these were puchased.. slowly..in batches of about 10 or 20 evey week or 2.. combined with as much manual removal as my hands could take.. to try to combat the algea.. I didn't want to have the alge go away and then everything DIE of starvation..
I have gotten fed up with the algea now.. and have started in with my girlfriends eyebrow tweezers to yank more of the algea out that slips thru the fingers.. (yes I asked her first.. she says she can buy a new one..
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Yes I do weekly water changes.. and all my tests are very good.. <shrug> I do the same things as LostMind does.. same water source.. same tests.. everything is the same.. cept... he has very little algea.. and I have the entire TANK of algea..
jsut time and effort to get it under control..
I figure that once I do have it removed enuf (tweezers take a long time to get all of it) it wont have the chance to get long as all the snails should take care of it while it is still in the very small edible stage..
<fingers crossed>
Anyways.. off topic but i guess its my post so.. maybe thats not sooooo bad..