Hair Algae Removal / Natural Eater - Saltwater Reef tank
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
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Finally a good video on them
YES, BEST VIDEO I HAVE SEEN. HE ANSWERED MY QUESTIONS. I WAS NOT SURE HOW TO GET THE URCHIN TO EAT THE NORI. MY GUESS WAS SET THE URCHIN ON TOP OF NORI. HIS VIDEO CONFIRMED WHAT I DID WAS THE WAY TO GO. THE URCHIN MADE QUICK WORK ON THAT NORI.
I have two of those.It is very active,walks around all day long doing the cleaning.
Cons:Will change your coral layout whenever it bumps onto.Those pins sticks to anything
and it loves to stick macro algae on its pins,if you have any on your display tank
Lol yep. Glue down those frags!
Your Tuxedo Urchins work differently than mine. I have 2 blue ones in my 13.5 Nano tank. They barely touch my GHA. I have had them in there for almost a year. They don't care.
I have to remove it manually. I think it is luck if you have an invert that demolishes it. All they do is just pick up the algae and wear it as a coat.
I have a pin cushion urchin such a hard worker loaned him to my daughter after he cleaned my tank
I would add 2 or 3 Lava rocks in there just to feed those 2 hungry things.
Ps Lava rock grows hair algae very well sometimes because there full of nutrients of every kind.
Woah!!!! I need to do this! I have a tiny one somewhere in my tank. Maybe I should find him and sit him on a hair algae patch.
Yes my Humu Humu won't allow for one in the display but they work great in the fuge:) Great video
I love these critters.
If you don't care about it reducing Coralline, my experience is they work even better than Tangs.
Unfortunaly they can be easy to starve in a small display and they can scratch acrylic, but in a big glass display or sump they are amazing
Yea more effect than tangs!
The 4 tuxedo urchins in my 180 put in work! Mega lawn mowers for sure. Also bulldozers, but well worth it.
Agreed! One of the best algae eaters imo
just added one to a 60 gal, turf algae ,will see after a week?
I’ve never had success with urchins staying put or cleaning off an entire rock completely
had to take my pin cusion out as he just stripped my carib sea live rock right down to bare rock he eat the paint that replicates the coraline look .
This video couldn’t have come out at a more perfect time. Just picked one of these up from aquashella chicago to help with my hair algae issues 😅 is there any considerations when it comes to handling them when moving them?
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would diamond goby be safe to have with a tuxedo urchin along with cerith snails and Trochus Snails.
When you did the double dose did it affect the Acro’s? Did you do a water change in-between doses, after, or no water change?
No water change for a while, took a week or two to work. Was mainly zoas i did it on but not impact to them.
just added a blue tuxedo to a 60 gal reef tank....tons of turf algae, will update on the progress.
Excellent. Good luck!
Update ??
They do, however, loveto pick up and move frags, snails, etc XD
I had one of them and my common hermit or black shell hermit whatever its called injured it and made a small hole on it then it slowly died
great video! please could you tell me how much nori to feed my urchin and how often once my algae is gone. thanks.
Thanks for the video! What size of tank do you have?
I believe it’s . 67x28x14
Hi Devon you mentioned flux rx in this video… did you use this and double dose it ? Any issues ?
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I wish i had GHA now ever since i have had my algae scrubber i no longer have it in my tank
Are you sure you with you had it?’ :P
@@ReefDudes yeah I went though some bad spells so I'm sure lol
turbo snails do just about as good and wont eat the coralline
Turbos work well but I feel these guys mow it down quicker and do more of a thorough job
Unfortunately I've never had a turbo survive my wrasses long enough for me to judge how effective they are
Do you have a recommendation for where i can find nori online for my little urchin?
Does it work on any urchin?
Is it reef safe.?
Whats the cons about that.?
How well do they do against turf algae?
I don’t have any to test with but I would assume so