Rmills1997
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
Well I'm new to planted aquariums and when I added an extra 20 watt bulb on my tank and started dosing with liquid carbon I got a huge algae explosion. I realized I was leaving my light on too long and I need to get some more plants so they can get a lot of nutrients instead of the algae but I have 2 Mystery Snails and 2 oto cats and neither of them seem to be doing much cleaning. The mystery snails I have seen eating algae wafers but they mostly just cruise on the bottom of the tank. I have only seen one of them once on a rock that had a lot of algae on it. I have 3 panda cories and they seem to get more algae than both of the other combined. I got the snails on Sunday. I got the otos Tuesday and I only see them sitting on leaves. I haven't seen them really "sucking" on anything except things that don't really have any algae on them.