Need suggestions on replacing a dumba** urchin

[BL1]

So, it's all fun and games when my urchin wants to carry around a few zoa polyps around the tank but, when I come home from work today and saw this

HE HAD TO GO! He's been banished to my 28g. Now I need to find something to replace him as, he would be all over my tank clearing algae off everything.

 

[OhNoNemo]

Thats hilarious :lol:
what about one of those cucumbers or a slug

 

[BL1]

I've got 2 cucumbers already but, they're detrivores not herbivores. What kind of slugs?

 

[OhNoNemo]

The lettuce sea slug is the only one i could thing of

 

[Bifferwine]

Lettuce leaf nudis will only eat bryopsis algae, and nothing else. Do you have enough snails?

 

[BL1]

Lettuce leaf nudis will only eat bryopsis algae, and nothing else. Do you have enough snails?

I've got a ton of nerites, a few ceriths, and 2 or 3 astreas.

 

[Smitty]

Hahaha...that's a funny pic. :) The only thing I can think of are turbo snails or a lawnmower blenny.

 

[Bifferwine]

I'd get more astraeas, and a few Mexican turbos.

 

[JBowden]

I seriously just LOLed.

But it's totally not funny.

 

[BL1]

I finally got fed up, everyday I've been coming home to find 1-2 of my SPS knocked off the rack in the sand. And today was the last straw. I'll probably go with the astreas, turbos, and maybe a couple extra ceriths. I don't think I'll ever get a blenny again, I love them and there such cool fish but, I've had two Blennies that wouldn't eat anything I fed them after they finished off all the hair algae.

 

[chiqui bb]

I have 4 mexican turbos and they really keep the tank/rocks clean of algae.

 

[crazychemist88]

I have two turbo snails and they are fantastic at clearing algae! However they are like bulls in a china shop....I eventually had to glue my corals down (much to my dismay) because I they would knock down everything everyday. I almost lost my acan they stressed it out so much. The LFS told me they would eventually "learn the tank" but after 3 months.....they still have knocked everything over.

But fantastic at algae none the less. When they are on the glass and you put your ear close to it, you can actually hear them scrapping. (may sound juvenile but I was amused)