Should I Add More To To My Clean Up Crew?

So my 30 gallon is really starting to come along/bounce back.....the lps die off left my tank rather empty and since then I've added an assortment of leathers and soft corals which are doing extremely well....some recent additions are a neon pineapple tree, a few colorful mushrooms, a Kenya tree, some Vargas cespitularia and a very colorful and textured mushroom that almost looks like a brain....the older additons are also seeming to do a lot better with the toadstools finally remaining open and not closing up every week...though the largest one is still sideways when hes open....and the finger leather that started the whole problem has been open without closing for 3 weeks straight...maybe this was the route I should have taken earlier but lessons learned I guess

Anyways either because of the large die off or because my tank just matured I've had a lot of algae both hair and coralline...the hair algae is hyper focused on the one rock face and it's very thick....I've tried blowing it off but it doesn't move....the tuxedo urchin and turbo snails seem to completely ignore it in favor of the coralline algae and the hermits ( two .5" and maybe three .25") will graze on it along with my emerald crab but they don't seem to make a dent...I've cut back on feeding and I do regular water changes but it just persists....I'm going to try adding phosphate removers after getting my water tested again but basically I want to know if my system would benefit from more hermits and any other inverts like nassarious snails etc?

I recently also bought a second emerald crab and a lettuce nudibranch though the nudibranch doesn't do much to help

 

For hair algae, your best bet is to manually take care of it.

During your next water change, do a deep clean. As in do all the heavy maintenance you can't do while the tank is filled. When the hair algae is out of the water, treat it with hydrogen peroxide (there are guides for this online) and rip off as much as you can with your fingers/some tweezers.

 

For hair algae, your best bet is to manually take care of it.

During your next water change, do a deep clean. As in do all the heavy maintenance you can't do while the tank is filled. When the hair algae is out of the water, treat it with hydrogen peroxide (there are guides for this online) and rip off as much as you can with your fingers/some tweezers.

I ended up doing that my last water change and I removed a good portion....the thing is at my local lfs the lady who has helped me since the beginning said that ripping it off will just let it spread...should I remove whole sections of live rock and treat it with the H2O2?....the rock is full of zoanthids and other frags

 

I always just treated it in the tank (while it was drained) with a cotton swab.

As long as you remove the ripped portion, it shouldn't spread.

 

I always just treated it in the tank (while it was drained) with a cotton swab.

As long as you remove the ripped portion, it shouldn't spread.

I removed most of it....the pieces that were left were then eaten by my clowns and my fishers Angel...ill try it next weekend with the water change