Crabs or snails?

[Jizu Puentes]

My wife set up a 7 gallon tank two months ago and can't seem to get rid of a certain type of algae on the rocks. Half of the rocks in the tank came from our established 110 gallon and half were dry rock. The algae is mostly on just the dry rock. The tanks only inhabitants are a cleaner shrimp, a tongan nassarius, 2 large stomatella and numerous stomatella babies. I have never had this type of algae before and would like to know what we should get to eat it. Here is a pic of the fuzz next to a zoanthid. Oh we also remove most of it during water changes.

 

[Tahoe61]

Neither Crabs nor Snails will eat that, sorry. Might be CHRYSOPHYTES. It might have to burn it's self out.

Look at http://www.cdmas.org/articles/artic...hikers-guide-to-the-reefs-algae-bacteria.html

 

[Jizu Puentes]

Thanks it does look like chrysophytes. I've never had anything like this before haha

 

[Ferozkaamil]

Snail works perfect for me

 

[YUP]

I agree, looks like new tank syndrome or like me, old tank syndrome lol. If it's a small enough rock, dip it in peroxide and then your snails will attack it. I have dipped lots of different algae in peroxide and if it didn't die itself over a few days. My snails and hermits must smell the decay cause they will eat it when before they wouldn't. Just a thought

 

[Reefing Madness]

I'm not a fan of hermits, as they are scevengers and if food is scarce, they will go after your corals.

 

[Jizu Puentes]

I was thinking about dipping the rock in peroxide but since the tank is so small I don't want to mess with any of the rocks while they establish themselves. Maybe I'll just wait it out and see what happens