I bought a sailfin pleco recently and it didn't bother with the algae in my mini pond. Can you advise what would be a true algae eater?
What is a real algae eater?
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For plecos bristle nose are the best. Flag tail if you have the space. True siamensis are not terrible. All depends on algae type.
I’ve found best success with Chinese algae eaters. They’re more aggressive but clean aquarium decorations of algae extremely quickly. Mystery snails take good care of the glass but don’t put too many as they foul up your water pretty quickly.
Mine must be defective then. He refuses to eat algae unless its in the form of a wafer.
Hahaha sounds like it!!! I had one in a 10 gallon and would move my decorations into there from the 120 and one piece would be CLEAN over night! Two nights tops!Mine must be defective then. He refuses to eat algae unless its in the form of a wafer.
That's awesome. Mine was a rescue from one of my mums friends who was gonna flush him. He was kept in a tiny 30ltr tank with a ton of mix and match tetras and nearly dead when I got him. Maybe living in a tiny, filthy tank messed with him psychologically and gave him algaephobia? Who knows lol
Could be that! Or maybe the algae wafers were easy to get so it didn’t have to work for its food. I never gave mine algae wafers.
I have pest snails (not a pest to me tho) and bristle nose plecos and no algae. Pest snails are free, don't create too much waste, they get into the nooks and cranies the plecos can't, and they make good fish food. I dont target feed my plecos either. They clean up scraps from the other fish as well as clearing the algae and all of mine are very fat.
For me by far the best algae eating pleco has been my L137 when he went into an algae covered 100 gallon and boom 24 hours later no algae. I just pulled him out of the 100 last week and now for the 1st time since he was originally put in that tank there is algae forming