Best Algae Eater for 55 with 1 Oscar

[Tahn]

I know algae eaters don't CLEAN the tank, but they do eat algae and poop it out, and I prefer to vacuum poop, which I do every other day and takes less than 5 minutes, than scraping algae off all 5 sides of a bare bottom (tiled) tank.

That being said, I know my tank size isn't ideal, but is there any medium to big sized algae eaters I can get with a tiled tank and 0 decor.

 

[GamerChick5567]

Maybe a bristlenose pleco or big nerite snails could do the trick. With that oscar though your choices will be limited in a 55 even with a ton of water changes. How big is the oscar? Remember it will eat anything that can fit in it's mouth.

If you had more decor I would suggest siamese algae eaters, Crossocheilus siamensis(not chinese algae eaters). You could get a school of about 4 or 5 of them, and hopefully they would be fast enough to avoid the oscar. Although I've never really seen mine clean just straight off the glass.

 

[Tahn]

My Oscar is legitimately the nicest or laziest Oscar ever, and never tries to eat other fish no matter how small.

an LFS near me has a chinese algae eater that is pretty huge, like 7 inches and fat for 29 bucks. Thinking about picking him up

 

[jhook]

I had quite a few big apple snails in with my Oscars for a while. Emphasis on had. The Oscars took an interest in the snails and carried them around the tank a bit playing keep away from each other. Eventually they killed all of my snails.
My Oscars didn't eat the Convict juvies that I put in their tank as feeders either. Now they work great as cleaners of the mealtime mess that the Oscars make.