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Jezah
03-17-2005, 12:22 PM
Hm. Ok, I am kinda undecided. I have a 29g with 2 bolivian rams, 2 clown loaches and a particularly nasty killifish in it. I need an algae cleaner, and snails are out of the question because my clowns would make a tasty little meal of them. I had a oto catfish, but my killifish killed it. I like my killli as she is purty so I need to know what other catfish can survive in a tank with a killer killifish? The oto was too small apparently. My killifish also had killed a zebra danio as well in the past. So, I need recommendations as to what algae eating fish/catfish are good for a tank my size with what I have in it.
Candycat21
03-17-2005, 8:56 PM
What about a Rubber-lipped Pleco? They stay on the small side and do a heck of a job cleaning up algea...next to the ottos that is
N8DOGG
03-18-2005, 9:19 AM
It would be better to find out why you have the algae in the first place and not add a fish to deal with it. I know that the clown loachs will out grow that tank, but it will take a while, so you will need to plan on their future. Also they should be keep in groups of at least 3.
Now I have an unplanted 55 with 80 Watts of light on it, its about 3x what it used to be so I see more algea then I want, but I can't add another fish just to take care of it. If I didn't plan on keeping a fish to beging with I wouldn't add one just to solve a problem.
I'd like to try some low light plants, that is if my cichlids don't mind, to out compete the algae. Also To keep my algae down, when I do water changes I just clean the glass very well, gravel vac, and if it ever gets to bad I just keep the lights on the tank off more hours per day. Since I'm not home for most of the day it saves on power and $ anyway.