Well, Im back from my vacation in Maine, and my octo date is approaching. I have a slight problem that I dont think is much of a big deal, but Ill ask anyway. When I got back I noticed my tank was over run with algae. Its all along the sides and more importantly all over the sand. I have a tank side scrubber whick works well, the bigger issue is, how do I get the algae out of my sand? Im getting a few snails, but I had a large turbo snail who didnt seem to do much as it spent all of its time on the live rock instead of sand. I hoped that copepods would help take care of it, but I dont know where they all went? I had a bunch of them, but now I dont see many. Any suggestions on how to manualy clean or something that will do a good job of eating it?
edit* I forgot to mention I also have tons of these... Small clearish white, what I think might be some kind of anenom. Im not 100% sure what they are though, the largest Iv seen is about an inch long. They are somewhat thick and have a small crown on top of them. They also look kinda hairy.