Flowerhorn growout

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Any suggestions on a pleco or other armored fish to add with my flowerhorn to keep algae growth from spreading everywhere. I’m just lazy and don’t want to scrape it does a lot every month or so and thinking a smaller pleco or something like that could do the job for me a bit
 
Deadeye Deadeye Magnus_Bane Magnus_Bane HybridFinatic HybridFinatic
Any suggestions on a pleco or other armored fish to add with my flowerhorn to keep algae growth from spreading everywhere. I’m just lazy and don’t want to scrape it does a lot every month or so and thinking a smaller pleco or something like that could do the job for me a bit

youre trading one job, scraping, for another job , larger water changes. The pleco will reduce the growth of your FH by increasing the bioload of your 55 g.

figure out why there’s so much algae, and fix that problem
 
Deadeye Deadeye Magnus_Bane Magnus_Bane HybridFinatic HybridFinatic
Any suggestions on a pleco or other armored fish to add with my flowerhorn to keep algae growth from spreading everywhere. I’m just lazy and don’t want to scrape it does a lot every month or so and thinking a smaller pleco or something like that could do the job for me a bit
what Rocksor Rocksor said. Excessive algae growth are probably from excessive nitrates. Test your water. Any time nitrates are over 20ppm have a water change. A pleco is not the answer. They won't do much for algae unless the food they require isn't provided and their bioload may be as bad as the flowerhorn's if not worse depending on the species. They are pooping machines.
 
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what Rocksor Rocksor said. Excessive algae growth are probably from excessive nitrates. Test your water. Any time nitrates are over 20ppm have a water change. A pleco is not the answer. They won't do much for algae unless the food they require isn't provided and their bioload may be as bad as the flowerhorn's if not worse depending on the species. They are pooping machines.
I don’t have an algae problem at the moment I’m just wanting something to help eat away the algae if I ever do get an algae problem
 
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