Batt4Christ
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Batt4Christ said:Thanks! I'm hoping some of the less common plants really take off.
Only "fatality" was the Glosso, which just steadily disappeared leaf at a time. I'm still wondering if a pleco did it...
I have a bristlenose pleco with a ton of glosso in my tank and he doesn't touch it. A different kind might eat it. Sad thing is the guy I ordered glosso from 2 months ago sent it with BBA and because I rescaped everything right after getting it the BBA really took off. ugh. I think I'm turning the tide on it though. Started with a 2"x3" square of glosso and now it's carpeted the whole tank. just has BBA on lots of it. Time for a Siamese algae eater. -_-
Batt4Christ said:I have both a full-grown albino Bristlenose and a mostly-grown rubberlip...
As far as an SAE - don't count on it doing much good. When they are young/small, they will nibble on it a bit, but very quickly develop a preference for regular fish food. Doesn't take long and they completely ignore all forms of algae.
What I have found seems to have the most impact on BBA is reducing light a bit and getting the Nitrate levels down to under 30ppm.
CorallineAlgae said:You're right of course. I mostly like SAE's as a fish. If I find a healthy one I'll still give him a shot. If he eats BBA it'll be great and if not that'll be okay, too.
I struggled forever to get my nitrates above zero before I moved on to dry ferts and upped my fish load. Now they stay around 8ppm as long as I dose every day. I just have to much light for an algae outbreak to be managed easily. I'm already starting to turn the tide on it with good tank management. Still got a long way to go, though. >_<