Help! Filter clogged during cycle!

[TankRank]

Well has your mom ever seen a nerite snail? They are very beautiful. My favorite are the tiger nerites.

Showed my mom the thread. It's a no...

 

[TankRank]

@Colin_T Gosh, you have been on this site a long time... Found this thread from 2008... I was still a baby then. https://www.fishforums.net/threads/...-the-filter-when-there-is-a-power-cut.236735/ Anyways Question: Will the BB be fine even though the filter was clogged for a while? It's not an external filter.

 

[Rocky998]

Showed my mom the thread. It's a no...

Well... There are always shrimp ig... Lol

 

[Rocky998]

To clean up your algae, you should get a singular nerite snail and maybe some neocaridina shrimp(cherry shrimp). They do well with bettas. I would recommend otos but your tank isn't well developed enough for otocinclus.

EDIT: Nerites are really good at eating algae, and as long as you only have 1 in the tank, they would reproduce like crazy like how other snails do. They will lay eggs around the tank, but those will not hatch unless it's fertilized and your other fish might eat them.

These snails do not hatch in freshwater... They only reproduce in brackish and saltwater to my knowledge. That's why people can get 4 and not worry about being over run. (In freshwater tanks)

 

[Slaphppy7]

These snails do not hatch in freshwater... They only reproduce in brackish and saltwater to my knowledge. That's why people can get 4 and not worry about being over run. (In freshwater tanks)

That is exactly correct...they may lay eggs, but they'll never hatch

The BB will be fine, now that the filter is up and running again