i got some fur on the LR then came the bubble algae. Last time i bought a couple emerald crabs and they munched it right up but… Now i have a couple clams and dont know if they will munch up the clams???
slap-stick
I have an emerald crab in my tank, and i have yet to see him munch on my clams. That does not mean they wont, but for me it does not. Is it on one rock, or all of the rocks?
Get aggressive with it now or you will likely just give up later. Manual removal as much as possible. I wouldn’t wait for the perfect little predator to come in and consume it all for you. When ever I find it I remove the coral or rock from the tank, scrape the rock off below it to remove the chance it has a footing somewhere that will come back.
I have some to actually! Well on one little frag in my QT tank. Never had to deal with it in my other tanks because… well I QT. 
I think it’s pretty. Send me some and I’ll put it in my majano farm!
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Get aggressive with it now or you will likely just give up later. [/quote]
Seriously - if you want to see what hapens when you don’t get aggressive come on over and take a look at my bubble algae aquaculture center.Â
I’ve been fighting it for almost a year now.
Oh and I also have several emerald crabs in the tank with 2 clams - no issues at all.
Rich ALL crabs are EVIL but if you get those emerald crabs that are on the smaller side you be ok.HEY! I happen to like crabs. 
They are just not all too intelligent and scavenge for whatever food they can get and it they get large enough and are able to eat snails, fish, or clams and there isn’t a better food source around then they likely will eat um.
Just like clown fish aren’t “evil†they just are very good at protecting their homes. Even if it takes biting the hand that feeds them.(of course they usually don’t realize this and are just acting on impulse)
I think manual removal works best.
i’ve used teri from fishbowl’s method. thumb and first finger roll it gently off the rock. of course they have to be of a certain size, larger, to come loose. none any more, hopefully; only had a dozen in 17 months. in early may, i found two attached to each other coming out of an acan’s mouth and manually removed them. they were really jammed in there.
I think I will try both. Does Charlie at DPA have emerald carbs and good CUC in stock or is it time for a road trip.
Any tips on LFS with good stock of CUC (I live in Bear)
Rich
Due to long term lack of cleaning the plenum sandbed, i had a nice crop of BA and a complete infestation of verticillata growing in the 11 year old 75. but over the past 6 months ive done some major sand bed vacuuming and cleaning, and scraping and have to say it is almost gone. My favorite method of removal is pick a piece of rock and pick the BA off with one of those pointy bamboo kabab sticks in a bucket of dirty old tank water when doing a water change. the stick can pick most of them off without breaking. then rinse the rock in the bucket, and if you are real persnickedy, rinse again in a second clean bucket of dirty ole tank water before returning the rock to the tank. cuts down on seeding. and keep a good sized fuge working on the side too. in time, you can starve it out with a clean tank system. and then follow the cleaning with a water change. but you got to get the mud out of the sandbed.
or so it seems to slowly work for me. Making progress.
Have some valid points Ken. If you get stuck with bubble algae in your tank it is SOOO much easier to battle if nutrients or lighting are low. Since low light usually isn’t an option cutting nutrients is best. I know a couple weeks ago when I was having a cyano bloom in my tank due to a die off of good bacteria if I had pest algae in my system they would have gone wild.
As far as cleanup crews I can’t say what is around locally as I haven’t been around recently and things wax and wane. TPP and Dr. Mac just about always have good cleanup crews in stock. Mac usually has both fighting conchs and Lg. Tonga nassarius snails which are great cleanup crews for sand beds, neither would touch bubble algae as far as I know especially the latter.
i was in dpa today, they have emerald crabs, and lots of diff snails, hermit crabs… and my BEST clean-up crew member is my sea hare, its munches brown, and green algae, don’t have any bubble algae, and it inhales any cyano that i’ve had.
Those sea hare’s are nasty lookin
:SPIT)
Can’t compair to a, “Donkey dung cucumber”. These guys make your, “nasty lookin” sea hairs look intelgent and sufisticated.
All they do in life, is leave a trail of Donkey dung cucumber dung (try saying that three times fast):
Saw this one while diving in the Caribbean. It was HUGE.
Thats so cool, i reallly want one
lOl
Big arse cucumber rock every one needs 2 or 3.