Algae eater with guppies?

if you have a good amount of algae they'll be okay without feeding. but once they've exausted all your algae you might want to feed them some greens or algae wafers
 
Not to hijack, but will any of those big snails be liveable in a hap/peacock african tank? I am in the planning stages and am looking for a good ...garbage crew?
 
Snails... try for something that won't breed out of control, but really with good feeding habits any breed of small snails (even pond snails) clean up well.

Avoid apple snails if you have live plants.
 
Mystery Apple Snails (Brigs) will not eat live plants. They are also sexual egg layers so its more difficult for them to reproduce than other snails. If you dont want more just remove the egg sacs.
 
get a Bristle Nose Pleco/Catfish. I have 2 in my tank and they cleaned all the algea out of my 55gal in 1 day, they're brilliant i deffinetly suggest them.
 
bought 2 mystery snails today... pretty little guys right now. Info says they will grow to about 1.5 inces, will that be ok in my 10g? (moving into a 20g this summer)

Thanks, Everyone! :clap:
 
brigid_marie said:
bought 2 mystery snails today... pretty little guys right now. Info says they will grow to about 1.5 inces, will that be ok in my 10g? (moving into a 20g this summer)

Thanks, Everyone! :clap:
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Yea I have Mysteries and had oto's in my 10 gallon.

I think the snails work better but only if you have too many of them lol.
 
I've had a golden mystery snail in my 10g for 4 months. It does a great job of keeping the entire tank squeaky clean. However, I did find that if there wasn't much for him to clean up he'd go for the live plants, so I got some algae wafers. They do the job (or did, 'til my giant puppy ate them!!) It is a pretty funny dude--I call him Turbo T because he moves so fast for a snail!!! And he'll hang out at the top of the tank at the waterline, then all of a sudden let go---oooh noooooo. You'll enjoy alot!!! Congrats on the decision!! :thm:
 
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