looking for an algae decimating fish

I have snails, crabs, sea star, yellow tang, and a clown fish. I have been in a pretty intense fight with my algae for awhile now but over the last few weeks I have made huge progress. I am finally starting to win the war!!!!

I am just curious if there is a fish out there that will destroy the rest of my algae. My tang does good work on the rock work and the snails do ok on the glass, but is there an ultimate algae eater fish? something like a pleco in a fresh water aquarium, whats the "pleco" for salt water?

 

IMO Tangs are THE algae eater of the reef. If your winning the battle I wouldnt get too worried. Take things slow. Are you sure its not a cyno or something similar? Some algaes fish will not eat.

 

I did had a huge cyno problem at first but I got rid of that. I have alot of green algae now. Some hair algae which the tang destryoed quickly, and alot of green slime on the glass which I have to scrape ALL THE FREAKING TIME!!!!! My lighting system is way overkill for the tank I have so I think that has alot to do with the fast algae growth (but im a newb and I really don't know anything haha) also I don't have a skimmer or un sterilizer yet, but they will be in place within the next week.

 

Rock blenny (also known as algae blenny, lawnmower blenny and sailfin blenny)

 

Skimmer may help. Sterilizer is a waste of money IMO. Have you got a fuge or anything like that? RODI is the water to use and will keep phosphates out of the water (phosphates feed algaes). Try shutting off the lights for a few days. Wont hurt any of your corals or fish but is hard on undesirables.

 

great advice!!! will do!

no coral yet and i am using tap water as of now. My tap water has .0225ppm phosphates straight out of the faucet.

I also have a phosban reactor but im not sure how much good it's doing

 

i know it's not a fish, but a tiger tail cucumber might do the job. I believe they are one of the few cucumbers that aren't poisonous if the die in the tank and they do a good job of cleaning up diatoms, microalgae and detritus.

 

another thats not a fish but does a good job cleaning rocks is the halloween and pincushion urchin

 

Ember blenny, super male

 

I would like to welcome the newest member of my fish family. My lawnmower blenny.... now get to work son!