Lobophora Variegata

[Reeferhead]

Originally posted by techigirl78
I no longer have mine after adding a orange spotted blenny and yellow tang. One or both must of taken care of it.

I also tried an orange spotted blenny a while back but I had trouble finding a healthy one. I went through two from Vivid Aquariums the first came in very skinny and lasted about a day the replacement only lasted about 4 days. Shame too, awesome fish, lots of personality

[Reeferhead]

Its been about two week now with a longspine. It's definitely Diadema but I'm not sure on the species. It's all black and has shorter spines than most long spine urchins I've seen. It definitely does eat lobophora, and cleared some small patches but does so rather slowly. I think it prefers other algae first I don't think the urchin alone will eradicate this weed.

I'm going to try out other reef safe urchins as I find them available in my LFS. However, I'll be hard pressed to turn down another Naso if I can find one small enough, they truly relish the stuff.