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View Poll Results: What kind of algae eater do you have?
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Common Pleco
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3 |
12.50% |
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Siamese Algae eater
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0% |
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Oto
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5 |
20.83% |
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Chinese Algae Eater
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1 |
4.17% |
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Bristlenose Pleco
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3 |
12.50% |
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Rubberlip Pleco
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1 |
4.17% |
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Fancy Pleco
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3 |
12.50% |
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Other
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8 |
33.33% |
02-20-2005, 11:11 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Wisconsin
Age: 24
Posts: 2,387
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What kind of algae eater do you have?
... just another poll
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55 Gallon
1 Fantail Goldfish
1 Albino Bristlenose
4 African Dwarf Frogs
4 Black Skirt Tetras
4 Angelfish
3 Zebra Danios
14? Assorted Corys
46 Gallon
8 Tiger Barbs
8 Pulcher/Brichardi Cichlids
29 Gallon
1 Snail
1 Betta
8 Pulcher/Brichardi Fry
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02-21-2005, 06:46 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
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Re: What kind of algae eater do you have?
Since I have one or more of each of the ones you have listed (except the common pleco), I was not able to vote  2 CAEs, 8 SAEs, 2 bristlenoses, 1 rubberlip, 10 otos (3 golden, 7 zebra otos), 4 zebra plecos (L46) , 3 spotted zebra plecos (L174) and still wanting more.
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02-21-2005, 01:01 PM
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Fishy Member
Join Date: Feb 2005
Posts: 31
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Nome of the listed at the moment though I used to have a Common and I've got plans to buy several Otos and some L-168's if I can get them.
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02-21-2005, 01:11 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2005
Age: 91
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Re: What kind of algae eater do you have?
Zebra plecos are carnivores they are not algae eaters.
I have a bunch of bristlenos- reg long fin and albino longfin as well as about 8 SAEs.
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02-21-2005, 03:38 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2005
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Re: What kind of algae eater do you have?
Very true, I just threw them in because fancy plecos where listed, forgot the subject line. Mine eat frozen brine shrimp, bloodworms and mysis shrimp. Sorry got carried away there.
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02-21-2005, 05:29 PM
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Aquatic Naturalist
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Dayton, Ohio
Age: 34
Posts: 14,961
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Re: What kind of algae eater do you have?
No algae eating fish. (Except for my daughters livebearer tank). Rudolph, Ghost and cherry shrimp.
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02-21-2005, 06:49 PM
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*M&F* Couple
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: PA
Age: 23
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Re: What kind of algae eater do you have?
we have a royal and bushynose pleco, used to have a common that grew to a foot, then we took him back
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02-22-2005, 08:37 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Cambridge, UK
Posts: 861
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Re: What kind of algae eater do you have?
I have rosy barbs and hillstream loaches. Neither are in your poll!
The rosy barbs eat brown algae off the leaves, and the hillstream loaches eat brown algae from the leaves as well as green algae from the rocks, wood, and glass. The rosy barbs are actually quite useful fish. They also serve as bottom feeders, making sure there is no uneaten food in the tank. I think that's why my pond snail population has remained low -- there's nothing for them to eat!
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02-26-2005, 07:46 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Southern Iowa
Age: 45
Posts: 498
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Re: What kind of algae eater do you have?
I wouldn't call the commons much of an algie eater either, I would call them a pain in the $^@,
We got a B-Pleco because I wasn't going through this trying to get rid of it when it got big, not to
mention taring up everything in the tank just to have room to move n rest.
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02-26-2005, 10:49 AM
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Fish Fanatic
Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 2,096
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Re: What kind of algae eater do you have?
I keep a large plec to cover the large surface area of the glass, and a CAE to reach the nooks and crannies between the rocks and plants.
Result, spotless tank. And they both get an algae wafer each for their generous efforts.
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If you have a big enough tank with enough hiding places, pH of around 7, you can keep virtually any fish together as long as all the fish are around the same size and these two groups of fish are avioded:
Serrasalmus
Tetradon(figure eights and dwarfs are the
exception).
I keep a successful community of fish in a 4 foot tank including the following families:
Cichlids, tetras, loaches, gouramis, barbs, rainbows, livebearers, killiefish, catfish, puffers.
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