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yes with most tangs as soon as the find fish food they will probubly stop eating the algae for the most part that is what happened with my sailfin tang. remove some gh with a toothbrush because snails cant eat the long stuff but the will get the short stuff that is left over after the toothbrush.one more thing... algae doesnt just doesnt appear for no reason i would check your nitrates, nitrites phosphates and alkalinity get it tested also you can try cutting back on light in the tank for 5-6 hours and give fish less food i have the same gh problem and limiting light and food has been working great along with chemical treatments to boost ph and alkalinity

 

yea but the problem is that the person who gave it to me had no snails for a long time so wht they were doing is just growing algea so but its starting to come down now.

 

ok thats good i think cerith snails are the best because theyl eat algae,fish food, and detritus of the floor but that good that your algae is coming down what are you treating it with?

 

As long as you keep your nutrients low....as in your nitrates and feeding, the GHA should go away over the span of a couple of months. If I were you, I would take a bucket of tank water, take the rocks out and scrub the GHA off then put back in your display tank. Let nature take its course. Keep feeding light and skimming heavy.

 

you need a ton of snails... no question.

But you need to address the source of the problem. You have high nitrates (if you test, you probably don't bc the algae is absorbing it all).

You need to remove the nitrates and stop introducing them.

How often/much do you feed? Tap water or RO/DI?


Also, how long are you running your lights? Try shortening the light period... algae (well, that algae) can't grow without light.



If it were me (and it has been before). I would resolve the source of nitrates and turn the lights off for 3-5 days, all the while manually removing the GHA. Then I would add in a better clean up crew http://www.reefcleaners.org.