Absolute best glass-cleaning/algae-eating fish species - please vote

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Hello

In your experience, which fish species has done the best job of cleaning fine algae off the glass of your aquarium?

Is there such a thing as a species which keeps tank glass so clean that it's no longer necessary to use a mechanical algae cleaner?

Thanks :)
 

JohnSmith

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Hello

In your experience, which fish species has done the best job of cleaning fine algae off the glass of your aquarium?

Is there such a thing as a species which keeps tank glass so clean that it's no longer necessary to use a mechanical algae cleaner?

Thanks :)
Once you have watched a pleco suck the warts off a toad (well, perhaps an exaggeration) you will vote pleco! But then, snails ain't bad ... and the others all have their places.

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JS
 

lilim10

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I like ottos, they cleared a whole tank full of brown diatom algae in less than two days!
 

AshK

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mag float lol
 

excuzzzeme

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#1 Otocinclus / Pleco
2 nerite snail
3 ramshorn snail
4 CAE
5 SAE

I have or had all of the guys and this is how I rank them.
 
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