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I have two pincushion urchins in my tank and I can confirm it is not the silver bullet some claim it to be. They don't seem to make any noticeable dent. I'm sure they're well fed but they aren't wiping it out just like that.If you put a long-spined urchin in there today, the GHA will be gone by Tues
hey lets work it live here, post pics!
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If you put a long-spined urchin in there today, the GHA will be gone by Tues
I would pull the rock, scrub the GHA off in a bucket of water with a brush, put the rock back in, shut the lights down for a few days, and then fire them back up.Thanks, I will try and post some tonight
I have one plus a tuxedo and a pin cushion. They did eat a lot of it right after I put them in there but it came back and they don’t seem to want anymore.
I was dosing Vibrant before I replaced my sand bed and it was working (slowly, but steadily), then I got a nasty case of cyano. Which also persisted after replacing the sand. Killed it (and some coral) with chemiclean. Tempted to go back to vibrant, but I dislike cyano even more than hair algae. Maybe its all about picking the least worst offender that you're willing to live withHI all, thank you for the input so far. Its great to have so many ideas. For those of you hijacking my thread, Im not bothered, we're all having the issues. So an update on my tank: 9 days ago I scrubbed and syphoned for about 2 hours. My cuc is about double what reef cleaners suggested for my tank. I have tons of dwarf ceirths, zebra turbos about 3 inches around, trochus snails, emerald crabs, nerite snails, fuzzy chitons, short spine/pnincushion/tuxedo urchins, algae blennies, yellow tang, hippo tang, bristle tooth tang, pitho crabs, paved mithrax crabs. The thought was that if I doubled the cuc # and added more variety, after i scrubbed off the long stuff, the cuc would keep it mowed down and under control. At this point I would say that I have added about $200 worth of cuc over the last month, and that that has NOT worked, the algae seems to be growing back just fine. My fish for some reason are showing sick symptoms (maybe the stress of all the messing around ive been doing) so this weekend is a water change, a last round of scrubbing and then next I will be trying vibrant.
Im on my 2nd fox face and i have a yellow and 2 other tangs. They dont seem to graze on the gha. As other have pointed out they like it when it is very low to the rock, almost not visible as gha. They will not eat the long filament strands.