Too LITTLE Algae??
>WWM Gunk Guru: >>Surely you can’t mean ME. >After months of fighting hair algae and Cyano-slime, I seem to have suddenly reversed fortunes. I have a Lawnmower (Jeweled Rockskipper) Blenny that has feasted for months since the setup of my 100 gallon reef tank on all kinds of single cell annoyances, gaining a stomach that would make a Hell’s Angel proud. To give him some buffet dining partners, I added some small Sally Lightfoot crabs and a Rock Boring Urchin (true name, it’s not very exciting to watch) along with 100 small blue leg and red hermit crabs, and about two dozen snails of various flavors. I’ve also upped my skimmer to an Aqua-C Remora Pro, and setup a nice little ozonizer that spits out 100 mg of O3 per hour and keeps the Redox at about 310 mV or so. I’ve finally added a juvi Regal tang (Doryiatus disneyus) that has a bottomless stomach for algae … and, I now have to squint like Clint Eastwood to find any algae at all. The drawback it that I’ve noticed my Blenny is losing