small catfish

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I've had my RTGG in her new tank for a few weeks now, all's fine except for slight algae build up on my bogwood and rocks. It's not unsightly or bothering me but if left unchecked it eventually will need sorting. She's in there on her own so obviously i'm the only clean up crew and vacuuming the tank doesn't do much to stop algae. I know that SAE's will sort it in a heartbeat, i have them in my other tank with no algae at all. But SAE's are a shoal fish and i only want one small fish with a low bio footprint. So i've decided to go with just one small catfish that's happy on its own, will happily go about its business, is quite longlived and remains small throughout its life. You guys any suggestions before i start trawling through masses of catfish info on the web.
 
L001 gold spot pleco. Mini Gibby at 12" max, mine is 4 and about 7".
 
A clown pleco kept my son's 10 gallon tank spotless, at least as far as algae is concerned. There was quite a bit of brown algae in the tank before I got it. After it had a week or two to acclimate it practically cleared up all of the algae overnight.
 
Cheers guys, i think a mini plec is the way to go as you've suggested. There are loads of other smaller cats out there, corys and the like, but it's recommended to keep shoals of them and as mentioned i only want one. Looks like i've a good excuse to escape the mad family life and visit my peaceful LFS at weekend now. Such joy.
 
Cheers guys, i think a mini plec is the way to go as you've suggested. There are loads of other smaller cats out there, corys and the like, but it's recommended to keep shoals of them and as mentioned i only want one. Looks like i've a good excuse to escape the mad family life and visit my peaceful LFS at weekend now. Such joy.
Cory cats won't really do algae too much. BN plecs and stuff are good for algae
 
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