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SpiritualSniper
06-10-2003, 11:29 PM
what kind of fish eat the green algae that grows on flat surfaces in a planted 29g, with false SAEs, hillstream loach, danios, black kuhlis, and pair of kribs? will a clown pleco work?
i find this question funny because it's like the most common kind of algae.... yet i know what eats all the other kinds of algae! this should be in the newbie forum, huh? :rolleyes:
anonapersona
06-11-2003, 11:47 PM
shrimp, Malaysian trumpet snails,, even rosy barbs if it is long enough or you scrape it off and let it drop.
aquatic-store
06-16-2003, 9:55 PM
Amano Shrimp, Yep get a few of them!!
marc Russo
http://www.Aquatic-store.com
SpiritualSniper
06-16-2003, 10:00 PM
wouldn't the kribs eat amano shrimp? and would they eat algae off the glass?
aquatic-store
06-16-2003, 10:15 PM
I have discus and kribs and amano shrimp. You are right the amanos won't do much for the algae on the glass. I missed that part.
Get some SAE's
marc Russo
http://www.Aquatic-store.com
cpr4cpu
06-17-2003, 2:44 PM
how about otocinclus catfish? they do a great job on algae, except beard algae (long filamentous algae)
I prefer them to plecos or any of the algae eater varieties as they stay small and are ALWAYS working on my algae for me.
aquatic-store
06-17-2003, 2:51 PM
yep ottos are good as well
marc Russo
http://www.Aquatic-store.com
I have a true SAE, oto, and Pleco. NONE of them will (or can?) remove the green spot algae on the glass :(