<head> <title>The Florida Cerith Snail : Lowest Price Online!cerith snail, extra large cerith, stocky cerith
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Use the drop down menu below to add multiple items to the same bag to save on shipping costs. Green Hair Algae or "GHA" is really a broad term that covers hundreds of species of green simple filamentous algae. These species tend to be simple, fine in texture, and have few distinguishable features. True species level identification requires a microscope. Nuisance Algae ID Guide- Reef CleanersNuisance Algae ID Guide. Red Slime, Cyano, Cyanobacteria. Green Film Algae, Film Algae. Green Hair Algae. Green Turf Algae. Bryopsis pennata and B. plumosa. Bubble Algae, Valonia. Lobophora. Blue Green Cyano.
Distinguishing it from look-a-likes: GHA is not coarse or wiry, it should break apart easily when pulled, and should lose form quickly when removed from water. If you can make out a root structure, or a stiff branching structure it is probably not GHA. Manual Removal: Green hair algae can be pulled out easily, and tooth brushed or scrubbed off the rock work. This is easier to do if the rock is outside of the tank. If it is growing from the sand sift it out with a net. Clean Up Crew: Assorted Hermits, Blue Legs, Florida Ceriths, Chitons, Turbograzers, Sea Hares, Conchs, Emerald Crabs, Urchins and a few others. It is readily accepted by many herbivores, but because it grows quickly it may persist even in a tank with a fair amount of cleaners. |
Funny you post from Reef Cleaners web page. I have over 240 snails in my main display from them and about 80-100 from my LFS purchased 2.5yrs ago. I have never had the slightest hint of hair algae in my tank. I did take a few Nerites from my tank and put them in the fuge but they seem only interested in the little bit of film algae on the bottom of the fuge and the acrylic widow in the front. At first they were on the sidewalls doing their job but once the algae got hairy, about 1/2" long, they retreated to the bottom of the fuge. Crabs will not work because they can't climb the PVC walls.
<head> <title>The Florida Cerith Snail : Lowest Price Online!
cerith snail, extra large cerith, stocky cerithwww.live-plants.com
Nerite Snail
Use the drop down menu below to add multiple items to the same bag to save on shipping costs.
Green Hair Algae or "GHA" is really a broad term that covers hundreds of species of green simple filamentous algae. These species tend to be simple, fine in texture, and have few distinguishable features. True species level identification requires a microscope.
Nuisance Algae ID Guide- Reef Cleaners
Nuisance Algae ID Guide. Red Slime, Cyano, Cyanobacteria. Green Film Algae, Film Algae. Green Hair Algae. Green Turf Algae. Bryopsis pennata and B. plumosa. Bubble Algae, Valonia. Lobophora. Blue Green Cyano.www.reefcleaners.org
Distinguishing it from look-a-likes: GHA is not coarse or wiry, it should break apart easily when pulled, and should lose form quickly when removed from water. If you can make out a root structure, or a stiff branching structure it is probably not GHA.
Manual Removal: Green hair algae can be pulled out easily, and tooth brushed or scrubbed off the rock work. This is easier to do if the rock is outside of the tank. If it is growing from the sand sift it out with a net.
Clean Up Crew: Assorted Hermits, Blue Legs, Florida Ceriths, Chitons, Turbograzers, Sea Hares, Conchs, Emerald Crabs, Urchins and a few others. It is readily accepted by many herbivores, but because it grows quickly it may persist even in a tank with a fair amount of cleaners.
Red leg hermit crabs will climb PVC walls, I have a refuge in back of my AIO system that I built with PVC and no matter how many times I tried to keep those crabs in my main display tank, I always found them over the wall and in the refugium
Turbo's sound like a good idea for the fuge. Think I will pick up a few. I don't have any in my display. I always shied away from them due to I heard they easily can knock over corals. No corals in the fuge.
