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i have an 56 gallon salt water tank and recently i have been getting a lot of red and hairline algae in my tank i have bought turbo snails and anserta snail i believe thats how you spell it i have 3 peppermint shrimp in their even though i dont think they will help that problem and also 3 general hermit crabs with red legs. i was wondering besides using chemicals to lower phospate or kill off the hairline algae what type of hermit crabs eat hairline algae, also i have two emerald green crabs in the tank. The fish in the tank is one yellow tang two common clownfish blue damsel, royal gramma basslett. the filter is fluval 305 canister filter and i have sea clone 150 protein skimmer on it. their is about 30 lbs of live rock in it right now and also i have bubble tip anemona in it.
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i went through the same thing but i got rid of it in 3 days with red slime remover its $20 for 1 10nth of a table spoon but it works
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oh and a sand sifting goby will work too there facanating to watch too
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Before resorting to chemicals, it's best to find natural ways of dealing with it, like finding the source and eliminating it. I have some questions.
What are your ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, phosphate, and specific gravity readings? Please provide numbers for these.
How long has the tank been set up?
What is your maintenance routine?
What do you have for fish?
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did u not hear me a sandsifting goby is not a chemicle
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I was referring to the "red slime remover" you suggested earlier. And adding livestock to a tank that may be having algae issues due to overstocking is not a great idea either, so I won't support that suggestion either until I know that the problem isn't that the tank has too many fish in it.
Edit: I just reread the original post and noticed that it does in fact list the fish...I didn't see it before for some reason, so I apologize for asking you again Tigerpaw33. I have to say though, that does sound like a lot of fish for that size tank, particularly because of the tang which will get quite large. It isn't an overstocking issue because of bioload though, so much as the space an adult yellow tang will need to swim. I'd consider a larger tank for the tang as it grows.
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Well i just came home from camping thanks for the input . all my measurements are at zero and salt level is 1.20 i notice that thier is no more hair algae, and the only thing that i did different was change the sponges in my fluval filter before camping. so i dont know what made the hair algae disappear but its gone, also the tanks been setup for 6 months
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Changing the sponges likely did it. You shouldn't use the sponges, or any other potential biological filter media, in the filter on a FOWLR or reef tank. They turn into nitrate factories, leading to excessive algae. Live rock, live sand, powerheads, a skimmer, and perhaps carbon are really all the filtration you want except for occasional (and very temporary) water polishing with pads/sponges if you need it.
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It’s not a sponge but pre filter pad for fluval canister filter. So I guess I would need it to use the filter properly. I was wondering with the peppermint shrimp is there any way to get them to come out of hiding. Because the use to be out all the time when I feed the fish now I don’t see them anymore.
Tim
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