favorite algae eater

[BrkD]

i chose a pleco...although i have never had one, i read that plecos are very good algae eaters and in my opinion very attractive. the algae eaters that i have are olive nerite snails and they get the job done.

wow old thread... -_-

 

[Cory Lover]

Hi,

Chinese Algae Eaters all the way. My four year old one is a great algae eater.

Cory Lover

 

[cweg71]

Both

I have a school of 10 SAE's and an old CAE. He is about 4 inches and 10yrs.

 

[lucky777ca]

I love ottos, but my pleco does a better job

 

[fballguy]

Snails, I have a few MTS, Common Ramshorn, and Common Pond snails that are slowly increasing in numbers. I like snails because they need virtually no care, just put them in and let them work. They are the only things that do a good enough job keepong the java moss carpet clean. Plus they do some very interesting things sometimes. Its especially funny when a 1 inch MTS tries to hitch a ride on another MTS 1/4 inch long!

 

[gomezladdams]

My favorite are my plecos
I have albino and spotted bn
and a larger I bought as a common but he stayed only 8" great algae eater
I have brigs like them esp my purples
mts are cool but you have to be sure you want them once you have them theres no getting rid of them

 

[Evan214]

I've only had experience with shrimp and snails, of which the better algae cleaner was the snail. However, I am looking forward to getting a pitbull pleco (only gets 2.5") and seeing if it helps with algae very well.

 

[fballguy]

I've only had experience with shrimp and snails, of which the better algae cleaner was the snail. However, I am looking forward to getting a pitbull pleco (only gets 2.5") and seeing if it helps with algae very well.

I just looked up the pitbull plecos as I have never heard of them before. Looks like my "rubberlip" pleco is actually a pit bull. I was wondering why it looked different from other rubberlips and has not grown past 2 inches in the 6 months I've had it...

 

[Evan214]

Hah! That's pretty interesting. They sure are cool little guys. At first I couldn't believe that they were at their full length at 2"-2.5"!

 

[fballguy]

On second thought maybe not. I guess I'll have to post a pic in the bottom feeders forum to find out what species it is.