****fish that eats valonia bubble algae - move to discussion forum?

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Originally Posted by ClubReef

I had a bad case of Valonia outbreak 6 months ago. I bought a couple of emerald crabs and they really attacked the small and medium sized bubbles..they don't really touch the larger ones. I cleaned up the larger ones by popping them with a bbq skewer, pretty much eliminated all of them. People say that popping them will only spread and propogate the algae..but in my experience this was not the case. My bubbles have been controlled and I won't hesitate to pop any larger ones in the future. This is my first hand experience.

I agree. The easiest/quickest way of getting rid of this stuff is to pop them with a pair of tweezers and pull it out. As far as spreading spores, IMO this is over played if not a total myth. Even if it is true the spores would spread the same whether the bubble were popped by a crab, fish, man, etc.