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

[Finley]

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

 

[Virtuoso2K12]

my pleco hands down.

 

[Riiz]

I know you said fish, but I vote snail.

 

[chazsgirl]

I say my plecos, I have never had to clean my glass since I have owned plecos! I do agree with the snails also.

 

[Finley]

Hmmm...which Pleco species and which snails exactly? I have both, but still seem to have to clean a layer off the glass fairly regularly.

My Plecos spend 95% of their time on the wood and plants, which are all spotless!

 

[JohnSmith]

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.

Regards,
JS

 

[lilim10]

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

 

[OldMan47]

My wife was complaining about the total green out on my 29 so I put 3 otos into it. Within a week I was supplementing them because they had run out of food.

 

[AshK]

mag float lol

 

[excuzzzeme]

#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.