Algae Eating Fish

i have 10 ottos in my tank and they are always working away. My lyretail mollies will eat alage off the glass and plants,My candy striped pleco is hidden all the time so i have no idea what it is doing.

Dont like snails, they reproduce to fast for me.
 
What does everyone think of rosy barbs? I have never had a fish that makes a point to staghorn algae as much as they do. The only down fall i see, is with dwarf hair grass, they seem to eat a lot of new sprouts
 
I just added 3 rosey barbs today. They seemed to find the algae quickly enough, although I haven't seem them go after the staghorn algae on my rocks yet. I'm sure they will soon after eating the softer algae from the driftwood.
 
I had 2 of those ocats, they lived for about 3 days, then I found their dead bodies crammed under my rocks.

Plecos have always been the best, I only have one live plant in my 10g tank, but they always clean good. They even get the algea inbetween my fake plants. I have my light on for about 14 hours a day as well, so the algea gets up there, but my tank is clear as hell. I know he is gonna get huge though, guess I'll just trade him to the pet shop when that happens and get another one.

The siamese algea eaters, didn't like them. I saw the one I had pretty much biting or sucking or whatever they do on one of my other fish. He died though.
 
My red tailed black shark spends all day eating alge,plus hes a real neat fish to have in the tank
 
does anyone know of a fish or snail that will eat the hard green spot algae from the glass?
 
biogirl361 said:
does anyone know of a fish or snail that will eat the hard green spot algae from the glass?
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Actually yeah! It's called the scraper fish. It's got a plastic handle with a metal blade attached to it. Works wonders on glass! Do not buy if you have an acrylic tank though..... (sorry I just had to be a smart***, no offense)
 
I placed a few Florida-Flag Fish in a neglected 29 gal. planted tank and they destroyed the mat of hair algae that established itself between my narrowleaf chain sword and in the java fern attached to driftwood within 10 days or so. I think the biggest issue is people don't realize that these guys are shoaling fish and a group of 8-10 fish won't bother each other or other fish. If this isn't an option, keep only one male per tank and you'll cut down on your aggression problems substantially.
I've used SAE's and CAE's as well, however, the Flag Fish is certainly on my loved fish list presently. I will say that I live in Central Florida and considering most aquatic plants in the states are coming out of Central Florida and subsequent hair algae growing in the tank is a local/native variety, it is something that the fish recognize and relish as a food source.
 
wow check this link
http://www.azgardens.com/shrimpfactory.php
anyone ever seen any of those shrimp or own them? I have only seen cherry shrimp, ghost shrimp, and Amano shrimp. theres a lot of other shrimp out there that look like thay may do a better job at cleaning up and getting rid of algee
 
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