algae eater options

[fishmon]

ok. i want a good algae eater! the trick here is i dont want the usual SAE or oto. my tank is 45 gallons with silver dollar pictus and danio species.and out of couriosity do rainbow sharks eat algae?

 

[gadazobe]

To the best of my knowledge they don't. Well, mine doesn't. How about a couple of bristlenoses?

 

[fishmon]

how about some bristlenoses?.. havn't had any experiences with them. ill do some research on them. thanks

 

[gourami guy]

Iwould have to suggest acouple of albino sucking loaches, they are doin' me good, when there is algae to be eaten, they are there
nathan

 

[Moe]

I have an albino bristlenose pleco. He is absolutely the ugliest thing you'd ever want to see. So ugly he is almost cute. He does a good job of keeping the glass clean. I also have some otto and an SAE. The otto are great little guys and they don't take up much room Another option is apple snails. My daughter was having a problem with algae in her tank, after adding a couple of apple snails and rams horn snails the tank is spotless. You cannot put snails in a planted tank though. I also have a bunch of amano shrimp, great little guys. They eat algae and whatever falls to the bottom of the tank. They are really interesting.

 

[Juggernaut22988]

Snails do the trick for me!

 

[fishmon]

do you think the ottos would be safe from my devilish pictus cats?

 

[Morrgan]

How big are your pictus cats? If the otos fit into their mouths they'll soon be gone, I fear.

 

[fishmon]

i would have to say 2in-2 1/2in. i think i should play it safe wih something bigger. ive never thought about snails! i guess i have alot more options then i thought. ok so i have SAE bristlenose, snail amano shrimp sucking loaches. ahh the choices

 

[rsz]

golden apple snails - they do the job and i'd even go as far as to say that they're quite pretty!!

 

[ocs0809]

Hi henry here.
I am new in his formus hope you dont mind that I share some of my experience on planted tank with you guy. I have around 10 SAE and otto in my 3 ft tank and they are doing a good job. Howver if you dont like both the fish. Maybe you can try Yamato shrimp or malaya shrimp. From my observation, i find that Yamato shrimp did a better job than malayan shrimp. If you dont like shrimp maybe you also can try thailand rocket or three strip pencil fish. As for apple snail, i have a very bad experience with them. Indeed they did a good job, but they also helping me to pull out some of my mini ricca which i was too shock to see that and i give them alway. But overall i find that otto still the best algae eater than the others.