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Posted by Lilly on April 7, 2005, 10:24 am
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CHINESE algae eaters are the nasty ones. Worse, when they grow up they
don't eat much in the way of algae. See the other recent algae thread.
:-)
The Siamensis are the gregarious ones. I've kept them for years (in
tropical tanks, mid 70s) and they never harm anybody.
A little algae never hurt any fish. Clean as much off as you can, do a
big water change. Keep at the water changing. Add some fast growing
plants like water sprite or hygro to use up the nutrients that the
algae use. Lastly, learn to live with a little bit of it.
Lilly
Angrie.Woman wrote:
> > moved my 20g tank w/2 coments to a location I thought would be ok.
> > algae started almost immediately.
> >
> > are the chemicals sold to treat tank algae safe/work?
> >
> > was also considering an algae eater....would large comets attack
> > another non GF in the tank?
> >
> > I can scrub the stuff away easy enough. Never had to deal with it
> > before and am looking for ways to deal with it.
>
> http://www.2cah.com/netmax/basics/algae/algae.shtml - a very good
algae
> primer. If you have questions, the author posts almost daily in
> rec.aquaria.freshwater.misc .
>
> As far as adding algae eaters....my inclination is to say no. Plecos
and
> Siamese Algae eaters will attack your fish, as they are attracted to
the
> slime coating. I had much luck with a pack of ottocinclus (sp?) in
my
> tank, until my GF outgrew them. One by one they disappeared. If your
comets
> are already big, I doubt Ottos are an option for you either.
>
> A
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> algae started almost immediately.
>
> are the chemicals sold to treat tank algae safe/work?
>
> was also considering an algae eater....would large comets attack
> another non GF in the tank?
>
> I can scrub the stuff away easy enough. Never had to deal with it
> before and am looking for ways to deal with it.