I had a severe bubble algae problem in my 58 gallon, along with a severe aiptasia problem. I added 3 emeralds and 3 peppermint shrimp. I do get an occasional bubble now but nothing like I had. Also the aiptasia problem is history.
The key to using these for pest control is to keep them hungry. I have one yellow tang and one blue chromis in my tank and every 3rd day I feed 1/4 sheet of nori. That is it. The chromis learned to eat the nori!!!
Now the tank pretty much takes care of itself and I do nothing to it. There was an article in Coral magazine a couple years back about using peppermints as aiptasia control and I just followed their advice to keep them hungry!
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