Red Turf Algae help

[Keana]

I've also got the stuff and its a nightmare! So far the only things I've seen eat the stuff are sally light foot crabs and pencil urchins.

Bye, Keana

[brutus187]

i've got a pencil urchin, but i banished him to my sump lol. he was being a pain and knocking over all of my rock work. i'll throw him back in (directly on a spot of turf) and see if i can get him to target feed.

[Aquattro]

I've used the mexican turbos successfully for this stuff, saw some at J&L yesterday.

[Doug]

Keep in mind, that if any snails are going to eat the algae, it usually requires hand trimming first, so its short. Snails seldom eat long algae, at least IME.

[Aquattro]

Gotta disagree with you Doug. I just had a dozen astreas gobble down some algae that was approaching 2 inches in length. Hand trimming is still a good idea to remove it though, since any algae that goes in a snail also comes out of the snail

[brutus187]

any idea on how to tell if the turbos i bought are mexican? The only place that had turbos in at the time was a LFS in my town...and they didn't even know "mexican" turbo snails existed...they though all were the same.

[Aquattro]

Ask them something in Spanish??

[brutus187]

Originally Posted by Keana

I've also got the stuff and its a nightmare! So far the only things I've seen eat the stuff are sally light foot crabs and pencil urchins.

Bye, Keana

I moved my pencil urchin back into the main tank last night...put him right on top of some red turf...woke up this morning and it looks like the little bugger munched away all night on that spot! It may be to early to say but I think he is the only thing so far to touch the stuff!!!

Anyone have 10 pencil urchins they want to lend me??? lol

[ElGuappo]

Tou are topo far away otherwise i would lend you my seahare to try.