Nerites VS Algae

[Arakkis]

Ok, lot of people haven't seen what these little guy can do to algae problems so I've set up a little thread to show their effectiveness.

So I've set up 3 10gal tanks using a fishless cycle three weeks prior. Lighting is Flouro, lighting period is 24 hours to promote algae growth. Now that the tanks are ready let the destruction begin...

This will be a work in progress and should last about 5~7 days with daily posting

Here is the clean up crew: 10 Olive Nerites (Vitta usnea aka Neritina reclivita), each tank will get 10 except the control tank

Tank 1 Day 0: Just threw in the 10 Olive nerites

Tank 2 Day 0: Also got 10 Olive nerites

Control Tank Day0: Nothing added

 

[calivivarium1]

That's some ugly lookin algae.... I am interested to see how this works out.

 

[Arakkis]

I set them up on with the intent to grow the algae.. BTW the control tank is where I grow the algae for my snails to eat.. I guess they aren't eating for the next week

 

[calivivarium1]

YUp, I've been wondering when someone would set something like this up.

 

[faun]

This is a very cool experiment can't wait to see the daily pics, good job Arrakis.

 

[msjinkzd]

I can't wait to see the results either, NONE ofm y tanks with nerites have any visible algae at all. I can guess what is going to happen

 

[SchizotypalVamp]

I'm completely sold on nerites after seeing what they did to my algae.

 

[Arakkis]

Nothing major has happened today so I'm not posting pics, will probably post some pics tomorrow. Everything pretty much looks the same.

 

[Arakkis]

Sorry for the late post, I just got back from a fish auction. To all those who attended, it was an awesome night!Anyhow back to the topic at hand:Algae tank #1The snails just started on the glass, many are busy on the substrate right now as there is about a 5mm thick layer on this tank's gravel

Algae Tank#2 Day 2Similar thing as the first but they are still working on the bottom of the tank. There are two pics showing their progress. Sorry for the second blurry pic, my camera had trouble cutting through the moving water on top

Control Tank: Day 2Nothing much happened, I saw some insect larvae that got into the tank eating the algae so I put 3 guppies in there to eat them up.

 

[DarkDH]

That is my nightmare tank right there...