Frag Tank Cleanup Crew

[LobsterOfJustice]

What do you all like to keep in your frag tanks for algae control? My nutrients are stable and low (Nitrate 2.5, Phos 0.04) and I have very little algae in the display tank, but the frag tank is a mess. Got a little of everything in there: hair algae, diatoms, cyano, bubble algae... the works.

Open to suggestions for fish or inverts. I have a tailspot blenny in there now but he can’t keep up... thinking of moving him to the display and replacing him with a lawnmower. I also picked up a small pincushion urchin at the LFS, small enough that he can’t move the frags around for now. It’s a 4’ tank so I was also considering a small tang which I could swap out in a year or so. Also obviously considering a boatload of snails or a sea hare.

 

[cojo8888]

Yellow tang and sixline wrasse for typical frag tank

 

[Tihsho]

I run a bunch of Astrea and Trochus snails as my main algae scavengers. In addition, I keep some small blue legs and medium scarlet hermits in there too to help with grazing. Most of my success with keeping algae down has been due to a chaeto reactor, but the cleanup crew zooms through algae on new frag plugs that come home as well as the supplemented nori that gets put in the tank weekly.

 

[BellaCoop]

sixline wrasse is very helpful! I also prefer my Tomini Tangs over the Yellow Tang. From my experience Tominis just go crazy cleaning over the Yellow Tangs.

I had a algae problem now i am contently putting algae sheets on his clip because the algae growth cant keep up.