Bristle Nose

[bogusmove]

Will a Bristle Nose Catfish eat (green) hair algae?

 

[smithrc]

nope

 

[Teelie]

They're not supposed to although I think mine did. That or it was coincedental the stuff went away as they came in. Either way, they'll still need food to supplement their diet anyways so the best way to remove unwanted algae is to do it by hand.

 

[bogusmove]

They're not supposed to although I think mine did. That or it was coincedental the stuff went away as they came in. Either way, they'll still need food to supplement their diet anyways so the best way to remove unwanted algae is to do it by hand.

Hair algae can be a swine though, you can scrape the usual stuff off the glass, but if you have a bit of bog wood, with all those nooks and crannies, with bits of hair agae fixing into them, it can be hard to keep it clean, short of gauging the bog wood with finger nails ;-)

Maybe your BN was hungry / greedy LOL

 

[Teelie]

I had some on my bogwood but all that's left is a few small dead "stumps" of it. If I ever figure out how I did it or if my BN's are freaks, I'll let you know.

 

[bogusmove]

I had some on my bogwood but all that's left is a few small dead "stumps" of it. If I ever figure out how I did it or if my BN's are freaks, I'll let you know.

Quick... breed them... Hair algae eating BNs could be a real money spinner ;-)

 

[Teelie]

I actually am trying to breed them but only one is sexually mature, a female, with a male on his way to maturity. It'll be a while before I have any fry and hair algae to test my theory.

 

[deni]

Get some amano shrimps if you can. They definately eat hair algae, they don't add much to the bio-load of your tank and they're great fun to watch as well!