I love my new tang, but..

[Bigair]

I was frustrated with algae covering all the rocks. When I decided to start over, I opted not to use sand on the bottom and introduced a light yellow tang (not sure of its specific name). This little fellow is excellent at cleaning microalgae, and my tank is now 'free' of GHA. What a relief! but.. he produces quite a bit of waste. Since there's no sand, I have to siphon it away regularly to keep the bottom clean. It's a bit of a hassle, but not too bad. anyone with same experience?

 

[Kfactor]

up the flow to get it to filter out

 

[Bigair]

like. but I have some lps and they seem not quite like high flow, especially my anemone keeps running away in higher flow. it's hard to balance

 

[MrGisonni]

You could get a small wave maker or powerhead from Amazon and put it near the bottom to keep the detritus in the water column so it can be filtered out. That is actually an advantage of bare bottom reefs.

 

[Idech]

Can we see a picture of your tang ? I’m curious to know what it is.

 

[Bigair]

 

[Idech]

Do you think it’s a brown tang ?

 

[Bigair]

Do you think it’s a brown tang ?

not sure, it does really good job of what he should do

 

[KrisReef]

Thoughts on electric gravel vacuums?

We have a crushed coral substrate that ranges from coarse grains to pebbles. Not researching substrate extensively is definitely my biggest regret on this build. None of the amazing sand sifting critters should be anywhere near this substrate, so we have bristleworms and nassarius snails that do...

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[i cant think]

That looks to be either a Vampire or Orange Shoulder Tang, be warned; they get big and fairly fast.