Cleaning Algae off live plants??

[BettaUK]

When I moved house and broke down my aquarium, I put all my plants in to an aquarium at work. I am just about to set up my aquarium again but the plants have algae on them! Will a plecostomus eat the algae from the plants or is there a way of cleaning them up before adding them to my aquarium?

T.I.A.
Bettauk

 

[guppygirl]

Yes, a pleco will clean all of the algae off of it, but what kind of algae is it? no fish will eat Blue-green if that's what it is.
Robin

 

[Tone]

What about some amano shrimp? They keep my plants looking spotless!

 

[FoundMoney]

My bristlenose pleco eats algae off some plants especially with broader leaves like sword plants, but there's nothing he can do about grassy plants like Vallisneria. Also, I have developed a case of what I guess is hair algae - long, grayish-black or green fibers growing off of my plants and some decorations. Neither the BN or my otos will eat that. I'm looking for a good way to remove that as well, since it does not seem to come off easily from my plant leaves. I end up having to just cut them off once the algae gets too heavy. I read that you can use a q-tip or other such device and wind the algae up but that didn't work for me.

 

[Yenko]

Supposedly amano shrimp will eat the hair alage.

 

[FoundMoney]

Supposedly amano shrimp will eat the hair alage.

Thanks for the tip but I'm trying to keep something of a New World tank. I may have to "introduce" some "foreign" species though.