LeRoy is an expert on reef algae control. We will help you get your reef aquarium ready for Spring. If you have red slime, diatoms, or green hair algae we can help you with our healthy, hardy Algae Loving Snails and our Mexican Red Leg Hermit Crabs.

Diatom Algae Control

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This video will show you Diatom algae control

Dark brown sculptured tower shaped (Turriform) algae eater. Active glass cleaner. This is the best cerith snail we have tested. It stays down in the aquarium on the glass cleaning algae and diatoms. It is listed in Julian Sprung's Reef Aquarium as a good algae eater. One inch long pointed shell, it can get in between rocks, it is a great glass cleaner. This snail cleans in zig zag pattern. It's radula is able to remove diatoms so well that they do not regrow from the original algal film. This snail does not dislodge or disturb any specimens.

Brown and black round algae eater. Active glass cleaner This species of Mexican Nerite is the best one we have tested. IT STAYS IN AQUARIUM
This snail lives much longer than astraea, it is slower and much better at removing all the algae and diatoms from the rocks and glass. This snail does not leave an algae film on the glass. It is also listed in Julian Sprung's Reef Aquarium as a good algae eater.

One half inch round shell with ridges. Found only on smooth rocks below average lowest tide. The choice of reef expert Larry Read.

DIATOMS ARE OFTEN A PROBLEM IN NEW TANKS BECAUSE THEY DO NOT CONTAIN THE MICRO ANIMALS THAT EAT DIATOMS. THIS GRUNGE WILL ADD MANY OF NEEDED MICRO GRAZERS YOUR REEF AQUARIUM LACKS.

Dark brown sculptured tower shaped (Turriform) algae eater. Active glass cleaner. This is the best cerith snail we have tested. It stays down in the aquarium on the glass cleaning algae and diatoms. It is listed in Julian Sprung's Reef Aquarium as a good algae eater. One inch long pointed shell, it can get in between rocks, it is a great glass cleaner. This snail cleans in zig zag pattern. It's radula is able to remove diatoms so well that they do not regrow from the original algal film. This snail does not dislodge or disturb any specimens.

Brown and black round algae eater. Active glass cleaner This species of Mexican Nerite is the best one we have tested. IT STAYS IN AQUARIUM
This snail lives much longer than astraea, it is slower and much better at removing all the algae and diatoms from the rocks and glass. This snail does not leave an algae film on the glass. It is also listed in Julian Sprung's Reef Aquarium as a good algae eater.

One half inch round shell with ridges. Found only on smooth rocks below average lowest tide. The choice of reef expert Larry Read.

DIATOMS ARE OFTEN A PROBLEM IN NEW TANKS BECAUSE THEY DO NOT CONTAIN THE MICRO ANIMALS THAT EAT DIATOMS. THIS GRUNGE WILL ADD MANY OF NEEDED MICRO GRAZERS YOUR REEF AQUARIUM LACKS.

GARF GRUNGE* HAS A VERY LARGE NUMBER OF CORALINE ALGAE SPECIES IN IT.

NO WILD LIVE SAND CAN HAVE THE BIODIVERSITY FOUND IN THIS ACTIVATOR!

Reef aquariums require a large variety of organisms to filter the water properly. Aquarium habitat is very different from ocean habitat.

Live Sand from a natural reef is good for starting marine aquariums, but each location on a reef has a limited number of species. Poor packing and shipping methods further deplete this fragile wild population.

We have been keeping an unbroken chain of successful reef aquariums in Idaho since 1977. Several times during this period we have had over 100 aquariums. We have researched captive breeding of such diverse species as Chambered Nautilus and Acropora coral.