Bubble Algae Help

[NateDogg]

So.. I am assuming that the bubble algae that everyone is battling is green? I have red bubble algae. It is round and very similar to the green. There are three differences, it is smaller, it is red, and it is much more agressive. My emeralds (two in a 29g) don't touch them. I can't even suck them off with a turkey baster. I sharpened a flat head screw driver and scraped them off. I know it is extreme, but so is the algae.

[Ping]

I fought Velonia a couple of years ago. Crabs only scrape the rocks and occasionally eat one.
Purchased a Foxface and now I only find a bubble under a rock or in a nook the fish cant get to.

[NateDogg]

I have heard from several people that the Foxface and Yellow Tang are great fish to combat this. Unfortunately, I have a 29g biocube and the inn is full. I have started scraping the bubbles with my screwdriver and doing a water change immediately after. It is starting to become manageable.

[CoryDude]

NateDogg, good luck with the red bubble algea. I'm battling it also. I've had some luck with scrubbing the rocks in a separate bucket and rinsing them off before putting back into the tank. That and low nutrients have kept them managable for me.

[Europhyllia]

In Julian Sprung's Algae book it says that in addition to the ones already mentioned the Diadema (long spined) urchin would also eat the bubble algae.

[Aquarium masters]

Take a piece of rigid airline tubing and cut one end at an angle so that it is pointed, connect a few feet of airline hose to the other end and start a siphon into a bucket. Poke the bubble and siphon out the spores inside with the tubing. The parent bubble should die and the babies are in the bucket then just pour and flush... And your doing a water change at the same time.
Cheapest method I have found.

[FossilReef]

For those of you that frequent Port A & Corpus...I have another solution. Striped Shore Crabs. They'll eat literally any algae, and I've had no coral-related problems whatsoever.