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Old 04-15-2010, 05:34 PM
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the algae book says surgeon fish,rabbit fish,diadema,mubraculus and pubo spp crabs,ercolamia and possably other seaslugs.other than that-lower your nitrates and manual removal-try not popping the bubbles as it will possably release daughter cells
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Old 04-16-2010, 12:24 AM
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nitrates are undetectable. Got some emerald crabs that don't do anything to bubble algae. Can't really try that many rabbit fish or tangs in this size tank. manual removal is impossible at this point, way too many of them. I think I will go ahead and try some kind of urchin, robably diadema
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Old 04-16-2010, 02:31 AM
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My Sailfin loves it , my Ex rabbit fish loved it my orange shoulder tang loves it. and my Kole will nip at it if I don't feed them
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My Sailfin loves it , my Ex rabbit fish loved it my orange shoulder tang loves it. and my Kole will nip at it if I don't feed them

Grrrr! My Sailfin, Rabbitfish, Kole, LM Blenny, won't touch it. Maybe I should starve them for a bit and see what happens. My luck they'll nip at all the LPS.
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My sailfin and rabbit go nuts for it too. But that doesn't help nlreefguy much since his tank is 50g. I'm thinking diadema urchin is the best bet, although I still think the green urchin has been the best pest algae eater upper I ever had, just too bad I have no idea what it is.
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