What fish to recommend to remove algae in tank with moss?

[yeoyl87]

Any friendly fish to recommand to counter hair algae without doing damage to my moss and riccia? I foresee an outbreak soon of hair algae.

[yeoyl87]

hmmm... any suggestion? i got a bit of hair algae outbreak in tank but i also have moss. Any fish to recommand? how to catch SAE out?

[Shadow]

yamato shrimps?

[yeoyl87]

does SAE eats riccia? My SAE seems to like to suck on the DW with riccia

[Justikanz]

yeoyl87, I shifted your query out so you will get proper replies... Good luck with your search!

[yeoyl87]

woot! thanks justikanz ! kudos! to AQ moderators

[wasabi8888]

It's better to remove hair algae manually... that's what i did with my moss... in fact i cut away the moss on my DW because of the algae... once i got my fertilization right, the hair algae did not come back and moss grew back.... you can use yamatos but it's not long term

[anaconda]

Think lots (and I mean LOTS) of yamato with a couple of Oto are your best bet

Seen yamato even eat up BBA when they are big and hungry enough. I remembered the old Bio Treat, the guy there told me he had a display tank over covered with BBA and green water and all sorts of algae, he dumped a bag of 100 Yamato in, no feeding, took less then 1 week to get everything nice and clean up

[yeoyl87]

My hair algae is gone. BUT green spot algae sets in. GRRRRRR...... any pros with advice?

[cairocks]

I was once successful after placing 2 red claw shrimps into may tank. One of them gave birth to around 12 shrimplets and they cleared all the hair algae on my moss. Kept them for about half a year before they all committed suicide by jumping out of the tank within 1 week. Could not find any more selling since then. But had not have anymore outbreak of hair algae also.

[Barra21]

I guess your best bet would be SAEs and yamatos. Otos only touch brown algae.

Bro, you might want to try snails. eg ramshorn snail, etc. they do help to clear some algae. esp brown algae.

[oblivion]

i still think good fertilization and maintenance regime works much better than simply depending on fauna to do the work
its a much better long term solution

check your lighting, co2 and fert regime
that is a better method imho

[ranmasatome]

Ameca splendens.. but make sure to remove them after..

[Shadow]

i still think good fertilization and maintenance regime works much better than simply depending on fauna to do the work
its a much better long term solution

check your lighting, co2 and fert regime
that is a better method imho

yeah it is better, but then you still need to remove the infected plants. That is where the fauna come to play, need them to help clean infected plants.

[Shaihulud]

Not a fish or crustacean, try using tadpoles, they eat algae, decaying vegetation and scavenge anything on the bottom. I bought $2 worth of them, so far they haven't harmed my plants or moss yet. They are also slow should you for some reason want to remove them. The tadpoles that the LFS sells are bullfrogs and takes about a year to change into frogs.

[Shadow]

interesting, first time I heard about this, any idea what type of algae they eat?

[Shaihulud]

They mainly eat those brown algae from the leaves, i don't really know what they are called, looks like dirt. My memories from when i was young is that eat those filamentous hair algae. Presently my tank has yet to develop hair algae, hmmm should try, i know where can get lots of those stuff.

[uklau]

The tadpoles that the LFS sells are bullfrogs and takes about a year to change into frogs.

Something worth trying. BTW, how do you tell the bullfrog's tadpoles from the rest? What do you do with the frogs (after 1 year)? Thanks

[scoobyjoo]

Not a fish or crustacean, try using tadpoles, they eat algae, decaying vegetation and scavenge anything on the bottom. I bought $2 worth of them, so far they haven't harmed my plants or moss yet. They are also slow should you for some reason want to remove them. The tadpoles that the LFS sells are bullfrogs and takes about a year to change into frogs.

May I know where you bought the tadpoles from? So you just dump them in the tank? Any special needs? Thanx.

[Shaihulud]

Y934, every kind of tadpoles should work, but LFS only sells bullfrog tadpoles, they are quite large by the way 4 inches+ they do not harm or harass fishes, eats fishfood and parboiled spinach. I just dump them in my planted wannabe tank, no filters and only air-pump, i feed my tadpoles to my big fishes before they change .