hair algae on acros

[ollie51]

i rescued a couple of acros from LFS but i cant seem to get rid of the hair algae on them its in the middle and will not stop growing i have lots of snails (margaritta snails turbos ect,lots of blue leg red leg mexican crabs 1 algae blenny it is only on these 2 1 is a blue tip stag other tri color i have been removing it by hand with a set of hemostats(tweezers)but it just keeps coming back tryed placeing in more current no good, any suggestions?

 

[eliterecon14]

think a lawnmower blenny would mulch the algae????

 

[ollie51]

the lawnmower does good on everything except the 2 acros i dont know if its to far inside the coral or its not tasty enough

 

[Herefishyfishy]

Emerald crabs and little blue leg hermits help

 

[ollie51]

i have about 20 blue legs and about 20-25 red leg 2 sally lightfoots and some assorted brown leg looking crabs all who show no intrest in the 2 acros w/ the hair algae i am hopeing fragging is not my only option they are not bad colonys but this hair algae does not seem to give up,and i dont think its good to keep pulling it off w/tweezers

 

[kevinpo]

Hello,
A couple of other options are to super glue over the area or frag the coral.

HTH,
Kevin

 

[ollie51]

kevin when you say crazy glue the area should i tweezer the area as clean as possible or just glob it on ?

 

[kevinpo]

I would clean it as best I could so you don't have any ends of the algae sticking up out of the glue.

Regards,
Kevin