The what?! What's a mag, and how does its buoyancy or otherwise help get rid of algae on the front glass?!Hahaha.
He means the mag-float!
The what?! What's a mag, and how does its buoyancy or otherwise help get rid of algae on the front glass?!Hahaha.
He means the mag-float!
I dont get it, so, how to you grow plants and not algae? I have good spectrum lights, and do weekly water changes, I still get little green specks on the glassWell I agree Plecos and Chinese algae eaters along with snails do the work fairly well. However none are needed unless you are raising them. Most people I know always say buy a pleco and or algae eaters to keep the algae away. Algae can be kept in check and is usually a sign of problems in your bio system and should raise alarms unless your intentionally allowing it for certain fish species. But hands down Plecos seem to the best job but they tend to get too big especially if they have alot to eat, but in 30+ aquaria that is usually no prob.
Um, pardon my ignorance, but what's that? I Googled it and came up with no info at all.
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Hahaha.
He means the mag-float!
The what?! What's a mag, and how does its buoyancy or otherwise help get rid of algae on the front glass?!
For cleaning fine algae - if it's the soft biofilm you are speaking of, otos and bristlenose plecos will clean the glass. When I do a water change, I still wipe my glass in all my tanks down weekly with a soft towel. even with the otos and BN then I know all of the glass is clean. If you have soft green algae growing on the glass or diatoms, otos would like that too. If you're talking about the hard green spot algae which grows from too much bright light....nothing will eat that. I get a tiny spots of this on my discus tank from some direct sunlight at certain times of the year and that needs to be scraped off. Diatoms are a fact of life in my low tech tanks and have been for years and years. I have no other algae problems. I think it is probaby from phosphates in the city water. I would rather use otos or bristlenose to eat them than have to continue to buy or add a phosphate removing product to my tanks. It is definitely a more economical long-term solution. With the diatoms, I have found that otos can eat the diatoms off of the narrow crypt leaves where the BN get too heavy to do that as they grow. In any case, it's good tank hygiene to wipe the glass down with each water change rather than depend on a fish to clean it as good as you.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
Every healthy tank will have algae in it, whether you see it or not depends on the tank conditions. Algae are a result of too much phosphorus and nitrogen in the water & as a result of high amounts of fish and food waste which raises your nitrates that along with heavy lighting will cause what we commonly refer to as an outbreak. No matter what we always have algae in our Aquariums most times it can't be seen that is when things are working right.I dont get it, so, how to you grow plants and not algae? I have good spectrum lights, and do weekly water changes, I still get little green specks on the glass