Anyone have success...

OCDP · #1 01-24-2006, 07:52 PM

Steve,

Glad to hear you had such great success. Has anyone seen any emerald's around town? I'd like to get one in ASAP to start workin away on it. Although, I totally hate crabs, they creep me out so much.. ugly creatures.. but if they can remove all my BA.. then they're okay by me.

Rich,

I've heard mixed opinions on bubble algae breaking in the tank. Some say it won't cause more to spread, some say it will. I don't know what to believe! haha. The thing is the algae is pretty much on every rock , but in small amounts, some only one or two bubbles... and it's suuuuuch a PITA to remove from a 20g, I have no room for error... and lifting rocks will cause a detritus storm and i don't want to chance some kind of mini-cycle with all my SPS corals and clam, etc, etc....

You say emeralds may eat other things... like what? heh, I have a bunch of zoos and SPS corals and a clam, and a frogspawn.. that's it really.

I like cowfish a lot too, just can't keep one !

Willow · #2 01-24-2006, 08:23 PM

i had a rouge emerald that ate zoos, blasto, sps, just about anything she wanted. they will do a great job on bubble but then what? try getting them back out!

Beverly · #3 01-24-2006, 09:41 PM

I had no success with emerald crabs and BA. It ate my ornamental macroalgae, began stripping the coralline algae and then holed up in my galaxy coral and began eating it. Back to the lfs for that guy

Here's a recent thread on BA....

http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=21746

I stand by my advice in removing each rock and chipping off a small portion of the rock where the BA is attached. Make sure the bubbles don't break while doing so. This is the ONLY sure fire, long term method of BA removal I have used, and I've tried 'em all.

sumpfinfishe · #4 01-24-2006, 09:48 PM

Thanks Bev, I knew I wasn't the only nutbar to respond with extreme measures

Tho some critters and fish will work on algae's, this process takes time thus giving the algae more time to spread. IMO it just make sense to stop a bad thing right away than over time.

Beverly · #5 01-24-2006, 10:14 PM

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Originally Posted by sumpfinfishe

Thanks Bev, I knew I wasn't the only nut bar to respond with extreme measures

Nutbar

You're calling me a NUTBAR !!????!!!!

Well, I've been called far worse by better people than you, so nutbar I am

DanG · #6 01-25-2006, 03:28 AM

My emerald crab cleaned up all the bubble algae in my tank except for the 3 small bubbles that are attached to one of my turbo snails. Turbo, he is not. I haven't caught him eating anything else, just algae.

OCDP · #7 01-26-2006, 03:52 PM

Well thanks a bunch guys. I am still not sure what to do. I'll start off by doing more frequent water changes for a while.. cut my lighting back an hour or so.. and feed less mysis for the time being. If I don't see ANY improvement , then I will possibly search out for an emerald. I just don't want him eating anything other than BA, and there is no guarantee , so I may not take the risk. I'll try and do it the old fashioned way first haha.

Bev and Rich... although your suggestions are sure fire ways to remove the BA. I will have to use it as a *last* resort, I just don't want to have anything gto do with removing everything from the tank... haha been there , done that.. too many times. Things just finally started to settle in and mature / grow, etc... so that's why I am so against removing the rock. I will definately keep it in mind though.

Thanks again.