Mollies and tetras eating hair algea

[Nauplii]

why would my fish eat the hair algea that attached to my plants?

its funny because after reading the post on fish poop i realised they were being over fed because of my lil sis 'training them' with food!!! so.... i stopped feeding them for a few days and just fed them afew flakes at night....
but now ive found them eating the hair algea which is not helping them at all lol....

there i was trying to not feed them and they feed themselves!!!!!!

 

[Jen]

Thats what fish do... when there is not food readily available, they eat what they can find. Mine suck on the algea growing on my driftwood.

 

[Nauplii]

cool, they also decided to try eating the algea off the glass... didnt work though

 

[canarsie11]

I think that is a positive.

I recently had alot of algae, cut down on feedings. Last couple of weeks notice my algae becoming less and less.

 

[Nauplii]

thats a solution to hair algea then ey get a molly cleaning crew or just dont feed em for a day

 

[Da_Oz]

If you don't overfeed they will eat on it everyday. Fish are like us they eat when hungry.

 

[Joviella]

Normally the only fish that will eat hair algae are siamese flying foxes!!
I had a nightmare trying to buy true species of these..........if your mollies are really eating the hair algae vixen..........well done!!

 

[FishDan]

In the wild (at least for mollies, not certain about tetras) algae is a part of their diet, so it's not that unuasual they would snack on it in the aquarium. They are not big algae eaters, and they probably don't always make a noticable difference, but I'd bet most every molly in a tank with some algae will at least occassionally eat some.

\Dan

 

[Nauplii]

cool... well im not feeding them... not yet... they are too fat..... lol.... 2 more babies were just sold wooo