Algae Eater.

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mcdanielnc89

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Okay, having a planted tank means algae blooms. Therefore I'm needing an algae eater. I call them that because they eat the algae. LOl... I need something small enough to fit into a 20 gallon tank. If you look here you can see everything that's in my tank.
 
Not necessarily true, if you have enough plants, and light, and the proper balance of nutrients, the plants will starve out the algae...

got any Pix?
What are your nutirent levels?
Nitrate
Phosphates
and Iron
 
Ottos are good surface cleaners and they don't really damage plants. Got to have good water quality and nothing too agressive in there though. As posted above, if you're getting algae, you've got too much nutrient in your tank, or not enough plants.
 
Oh. thats a lot better.

still, it would me much better for you and for the plants if you found a balance between the lighting, adding ferts, and dosing CO2 rather than just adding fish to take care of the algae...it may take a while and a lot of experimenting, but it will pay off
 
I do agree, but I've been trying to do this for months... I must not be doing something right..

I have been doing water changes.. I even went a far as killing my shrimp, lol... No offense to shrimp lovers. Nothign works... What should i do?
 
I don't know if this helps, but I bought a CAE for my planted 55g that was covered with green and brown algae...in 2 days all of it was just about gone. the CAE even cleaned off all of the leaves of the plants
 
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