as for other fish, I still want to add a CAE to the tank, and If I could catch the stick catfish without upsetting the tank to much he will also have a try at it..
I have brown algae, green algae, BBA. I could try and see who eats what.
the fish are added to the tank 3 gallons in size no other food 9.3wpg of 6400K light and a HOB 80g filter
Contestant no 1.
Name Common Pleco ..
Green algae : some was removed from the leaves but there is still some left seems like its not a choise but to way to survive,took 3 days before he start eating it
brown algae : lots within a hour all brown algae was removed from the leafes. the side of the tank also has some and these was also removed with in the same hour
BBA : this was to my suprise eaten within the second day.. everything is now removed from the leafes even while there is still some green algae left
This is a monster of a algae eater, I think he will eat much more than most think its just sad that he will get to big for most tanks.. on the Anubias he did no damage to the leafes but I places some watersprite with brown algae to the tank, and he ate everything but the roots..
Contestant no 2.
Name False Siamese algae eater
Green algae : most was removed within the first day, some are still left on the plant, although I was hopeing he would eat more I added him to the tank with the pleco to help remove the last bit of green algae, he was not much of a help
Brown algae : not much was touched and most of the algae in the tank is still there.
BBA : Nothing was touched. three days later and there might now be more that when I added him to the tank..
this is not really a good algae eater at all.. I placed some watersprite the tank with brown algae and he didnt even try to eat any of the algae, also no damage was done to any of the leafes..
Contestant no 3.
Name True Siamese algae eater
Green algae : lots were eaten by them mostly the easy the get on the most middle of the leafes there is after three days still more than 50% left
Brown algae : there was not much in the tank but most seem to been eaten this only started to become less after day two
BBA : they are still in the tank on day three and none of the BBA is touched, I will leaving them for a extra two days as I have read that they will eat it, sometime?
I added a smaller Anubias to the tank as I'm now running out of stuff with BBA on them, and some other plant that got some algae on them. None of the leafes were damage even the softer leafes of the watersprite that had some brown algae on them is cleaned but no damage to leafes as far as my naked eye could see.
