Hi, need some educated guesses:
I recently put two long-armed shrimp (3-4cm) and an Ancistrus catfish (4-5cm) in a small tank to quarantine them before they went into other tanks. This tank had a film of brown algae on the two sides I don't clean.
I was surprised to see, a few days after introducing the shrimp and the catfish, that the algae was all gone, seemingly from one day to the next!
As I have a bit of an algae situation on rocks in a 40 gallon tank, I though one of them might be interested in a clean-up job; but is it the shrimp or the catfish?
I've seen then both grazing around the tank, but didn't see either them particularly working on that algae.
Supplementary questions:
Can anyone ID the shrimp? I think it's a northern Australian species.
The catfish was sold as A. cirrhosus.
The 40 gallon has Pakistani / yoyo loaches. The largest one occasionally catches and eats a red cherry shrimp, though normally they ignore each other. Would he be a danger to the long-armed shrimp? They are already about twice as long as an RCS.
I recently put two long-armed shrimp (3-4cm) and an Ancistrus catfish (4-5cm) in a small tank to quarantine them before they went into other tanks. This tank had a film of brown algae on the two sides I don't clean.
I was surprised to see, a few days after introducing the shrimp and the catfish, that the algae was all gone, seemingly from one day to the next!
As I have a bit of an algae situation on rocks in a 40 gallon tank, I though one of them might be interested in a clean-up job; but is it the shrimp or the catfish?
I've seen then both grazing around the tank, but didn't see either them particularly working on that algae.
Supplementary questions:
Can anyone ID the shrimp? I think it's a northern Australian species.
The catfish was sold as A. cirrhosus.
The 40 gallon has Pakistani / yoyo loaches. The largest one occasionally catches and eats a red cherry shrimp, though normally they ignore each other. Would he be a danger to the long-armed shrimp? They are already about twice as long as an RCS.