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What about a product such as API "Algaefix?" It's supposed to "control many kinds of algae without harming fish or plants." It looks like the active ingredient is polyethylene dichloride.

How do you use a Python with chlorinated water?

But what if you can't have plants (stock lighting, hard water, etc.)?

I'm still trying to detox from my reef-keeping days when I felt like a poor chemist!:p

Has anyone tried this product?: Product Catalog This product promises to decrease phosphates to 0 (preventing algae growth) and decreasing nitrates to below 40 for approximately 6 months by feeding the bacteria that convert nitrates to nitrogen gas. What do you all think?

Which flake brands seem to be the most nutritious?

I fed them "Community Frenzy" - frozen food by San Francisco Bay brand - they LOVED it. It has brine shrimp, daphnia, cyclops, veggies, vitamins and tons of other stuff.

I'd love to hear some thoughts/advice about feeding. I have cardinals, neons, rasboras, white clouds, head and tail light tetras a cory and an albino rainbow shark in a 29 gallon tank. I feed a small amount of crumbled flake food (Nutrafin) twice a day and small sinking algae pellets for the...

I thought rainbow sharks were only supposed to grow to 4 inches?

I have an "albino rainbow shark" who does a better job than my cory at clean-up. He even does the plastic plants!

After about five years, I sold my two mini-reefs (too much time, money and grief) and started a 29 gallon all-plastic-plant community tank. I've also tried planted tanks, but (IMO) they're as difficult and frustrating as reefs. I think there's something to be said for a (very) low maintenance...