Brown algae (diatoms?)

[cginflorida]

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.

[Rocket2001]

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.

[cginflorida]

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.

[TankGirl]

How about a bristlenose pleco?