dealing with valonia

[BlackRed+Yellow]

anyone have experience with a sea urchin to help control valonia...

I have little to no luck with emerald mithrax eating the stuff. Or Foxface rabbitfish.

Sea urchin may be my next step.

 

[DonW]

No such luck, my urchin wont touch them. I'm down to my last few bubbles. Took lots of daily rock blasting. I also keep ca up to get the coraline to encrust them quickly. They dont live long once covered with coraline.

Don

 

[jesshimom]

I guess I'm lucky. I added an emerald crab and he cleaned me out! ALthough i do have to add he ripped apart my green/orange zoos cleaning in between them so that ticked me off.

 

[Reefreak]

Mithrax did it for me.... only one in a 100gal
Maybe you have a picky one.
I also have a blue tuxedo urchin and all I have seen him eat is Coralline algae, he can strip it clean from the live rock like it was never there.