I think my urchins are broken

[Panicked Reefer]

I purchased what i believe to be a variegated urchin and a white urchin. I was told that they would put a hurting on my hair algae. They like basically everything else in my tank will not touch it. They are destroying my coraline algae though. Which I think may be counter productive because it looks like the gha struggles to grow with the coraline is and they are removing TONS of coraline. Has anyone else experienced this?

 

[sfin52]

I purchased what i believe to be a variegated urchin and a white urchin. I was told that they would put a hurting on my hair algae. They like basically everything else in my tank will not touch it. They are destroying my coraline algae though. Which I think may be counter productive because it looks like the gha struggles to grow with the coraline is and they are removing TONS of coraline. Has anyone else experienced this?

Try shortening the ha. A lot of critters don't like the long strands.

 

[Panicked Reefer]

I pull out as much of it as I can every 3-5 days.

 

[Lavey29]

I pull out as much of it as I can every 3-5 days.

This is not an overnight fix. Keep the manual removal up add 2 turbos to help the urchins. They cleared my GHA jungle in a month.

 

[Kyuubi]

I pull out as much of it as I can every 3-5 days.

I had a lawnmower blenny eat the longer and shorter strands of HA, and then I rehomed him once my tank stabilized. Do you have one in your tank?