Brown algae (diatoms?)

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cginflorida

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What besides otos will eat the brown algae that's formed in my 75 gal on the artificial plants. I don't want to put otos in there, they'd be too hard to find and catch if I had to move them.

Right now this tank only has 4 platys and 1 pictus catfish, so I'm not too limited on what I could get.
 
I know you said you don't want ottos, but when my brown algae problem started I didn't know what to do and so many people said get the ottos. So I go 3 ottos and they had the tank clean in less than a week. The tank is now cystal clean and they are fish that don't bother anyone and no one else seems to notice them. If all else fails go for the ottos.
 
Rocket, I have otos in my 10 gal. They're great fish, but I really don't want to put them in the 75 gal because it would be so hard to catch them if i had to move them for any reason.
 
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