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Great job! Do post more details of your tank here!
Just finished cycling and my bogwood finally sinked after 2 weeks of tough fight!
Great job! Do post more details of your tank here!
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Any bros has good recommendation for glass algae eater except oto. Oto is too fast for my algae growth, often they die after..
How about this bro? Horned nerite.
Slow but efficent. Sometimes they lay a few eggs on my driftwood or glass, but that's nicer than algae. Cheap and common to find.
Yeah. The nerite snails are nice to look at as well. Some of their colours are fascinating.
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after otos cleared your algae, you can feed them algae wafer. Mine loves algae wafers as supplementary food.
Wow nice leh.. How come your snail color so nice. I saw a lot of blackies.. Sigh.Originally Posted by Henlek
How about this bro? Horned nerite.
Slow but efficent. Sometimes they lay a few eggs on my driftwood or glass, but that's nicer than algae. Cheap and common to find.
I ever try. Algae wafer is one of my supply. But before oto get it, it's mostly gone..
Maybe you can still keep one or two otos in the tank as part of the "maintenance team"... most people put in too many otos at once thinking the more the merrier, but end up the weaker ones tend to starve due to too much competition or shortage of sufficient soft algae in the tank (they don't eat tough algae like hair/thread/GSA etc).
I've found that 1 oto per 30 litres of tank volume in an established and cycled planted tank seems to strike a good balance of enough soft algae growing naturally to keep them fed without requiring additional food supplementation. But if higher ratios of otos were added then they would all have to be fed with supplemented food regularly (ie. algae wafers or sinking wafers).
Its also important to pick only the most healthy and active otos from LFS (not the pale ones or those with sunken stomach), this makes a big difference in their survival rate, especially during the initial few weeks of being added to a tank.
Will give it a try again.. Hope they don't die on me..
Just put one nerite snail would do... If you put a pair or more. Your tank would start to look awful when they start to lay eggs around.
few eggs might be an understatement to some: pHow about this bro? Horned nerite.
Slow but efficent. Sometimes they lay a few eggs on my driftwood or glass, but that's nicer than algae. Cheap and common to find.
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Would be good to have some cleaners haha
The whole tank will be 'sprinkled' around by sesame seeds...
Does anyone have horned nerite snail with hc setup? Will they uproot hc when they crawl over them?
I am facing green dust algae issue. They can be found on the tank walls and even on some plant leaves, which algae eater can clear it?
Nerite snails don't damage plants at all (: not even HC
Hmm I think his qns is whether then snail would accidentally uproot the hc since hc is growing roots?
That's not mine, google snail! My camera can't take so nice pics. I have 5 though, looks exactly like that, very nice yellow.
Like a grain of rice, here and there, ok la. Since they can't hatch, no killing involved, so I scrub off.
Me. Didn't have a problem. But then my HC is not fully carpeted. Try SAE? More workaholic but they can be quite rough. Green dust damn difficult, must scrub mostly.
Mine really no issue. They are like so slow to be capable of an accident. But of course if you just planted the HC, then no insurance.
My glosso still super weak..
Ah, then play safe...
I don't know if you're interested in shrimps, small ones like cherrys or fire, they very harmless to plants, eat like 24hrs. But then they don't do work on glass...
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