HI Guys,
i read this from this website: www.badmanstropicalfish.com/mb/mb103.html
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Monday, July 16, 2001 - 07:41 am
----------------------------------------------------------Iboy and Jeff,
I went to Petsmart (of all places) and got GOOD ADVICE (on top of the good advice here of course)!!!! Can you believe it?
first the HELPFUL (again can you believe it) lady there told me that the ROSY barb is good at hair, beard and staghorn algae removal without damaging plants. To prove it (as I was a skeptic)She then took several plants from thier stock they just recieved that had algae on them and put them in a tank full of Rosy barbs. THE FISH WENT NUTS and tore into the algae. She said she does this all the time to clean them up.
So at this point I will try anything and bought 4 for my aquarium and 2 for the wifes. And in 3 days I would say 50% of my hair/staghorn algae (and there was allot of it) is GONE!!!! With NO CHEMICALS. I also bought 2 packs of GREEN X (thanks Iboy) so as to remove any phosphates. I hope this does it.
Leassons learned:
1) Get ottos or SAEs for green and brown algae
2) Get Rosy Barbs (actually I have the long finned kind and they are BEAUTIFUL) to remove hair/staghorn algae. They love this stuff.
3) CONTROL phospahtes.
and of course other leassons. Thanks Jeff, Iboy and others...I know I have been a "Algae problem" and hope this is it!
Claude
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So is this very true that Rosy barbs can do this chore? if yes, will get few of them for my tank... guys, please advise
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