Hard water algae eaters

[FishBearer9845]

Can't seem to find anywhere locally that sells them - will have to look online

 

[AilyNC]

It's not me - never had a bn and I have soft water

You're lucky must be Sean.

 

[seangee]

Not me, couldve been @seangee - he has a 15 year old BN pleco and hardwater. But, he uses RO water, whether or not he uses RO for the BN I'm not sure.

BN used to live in very hard water. Now he lives in very soft water.

 

[Tez_20]

60L - 60 x 41 x 41
Sorry, I forgot to put that!

We suffer with hard water here & i got algae build up and added two small brsitlenose pleco's and omg the tanks sparkling

 

[FishBearer9845]

Yeah I guess my issue is that I deliberately set up another tank that runs on a 60/40 RO/tap water basis to be able to move my cories as the don't flourish in hard water.
If BN Plecos are to the same or similar parameters and I put it in rock hard water, I'm just back to square one and shouldn't have bothered moving the cories over.
I think although I love plecos I will go for a Rabbit Snail or two as they're pretty funky and can handle the hardness.

 

[CassCats]

Yeah bristlenose can only do up to 268ppm or 15DH
Really hard to say, outside of snails, but a rabbit snail would be really cool.

 

[AilyNC]

Yeah I guess my issue is that I deliberately set up another tank that runs on a 60/40 RO/tap water basis to be able to move my cories as the don't flourish in hard water.
If BN Plecos are to the same or similar parameters and I put it in rock hard water, I'm just back to square one and shouldn't have bothered moving the cories over.
I think although I love plecos I will go for a Rabbit Snail or two as they're pretty funky and can handle the hardness.

Rabbit snails look brilliant! And less poop than a Pleco.

 

[Wills]

I’d go with a mix of shrimp Amano and I found some Pinocchio shrimps on eBay last night that look cool too. If you want rabbit snails Horizon Aquatics have some really nice ones on their website and they do postage too.

Wills

 

[Wills]

Actually ignore the Pinocchio shrimp just read on pfk they are brackish - shame as they look really cool