Algae Eaters For A 2 Foot Long 70 Litre

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Hello, my tank is almost 2 months old and I am in desperate need of an algae eater. The community creator doesn't tell how good the fish are at eating the algae (if that makes sense)

I have assassin snails so that means I can't have other types of snails

Tank measurements 61 (long), 31 (wide), 45.5 (tall)

I have some live plants and plastic plants and the light is on 6 hours a day because the tank has some natural light from a small window behind it. The algae is mainly a light brown and is on the bog wood and plastic plants. I also have a some hair algae on the edge of my live plants.

I was thinking of Pygmy Cories or is my tank too small?

My nitrite was 0.0 this morning and ammonia was at 0.6.

I always thought that cories were algae eaters because of the way they look to be cleaning the bottom. However I now presume that they are foraging for good. I learn something new about fish everyday.

I should have remembered about those from your thread.

Make sure you look at the smaller species as the bigger ones need a tank longer than 60cm.



If your ammonia was 0.6, you may need to do something about it - meaning water changes to get it down. But first, look at this calculator. Ammonia exists in 2 forms in water - toxic ammonia and much less toxic ammonium. But our test kits test for them both combined so we can't tell from the test results if we have too much of the toxic form. That's what the calculator is for. Enter your ammonia reading, temp and pH on the left, and set salinity to 0. After you've clicked calculate, you want the bottom figure on the right hand side, the one labelled NH3 concentration. If it is below 0.02 that's fine. If it is above 0.02 you need to do a water change to get it below 0.02. The volume of water change depends on just how far above 0.02 it is.

Sounds like you're being given some good suggestions here.

Incidentally, I may have posted in the past about my pygmy cories (RIP) eating algae, so, if you did happen to read about that, that actually only lasted for their first few months when they did a brilliant job of cleaning up the algae from the silk plants and devouring algae wafers - but then suddenly stopped. It sounds as though this isn't usual cory behaviour, though, and, for a variety of reasons, I'd suggest you go with these other suggestions.

I just remembered, stiphodon require a high oxygen content. Don't keep them in an overstocked or tank with little surface agitation or small filter/low turnover as they won't do well. They ideally like a river type setup with a turnover of at least 10x volume per hour and pristine water.

On the note about assassin snails and nerites, I have both in my tank without problem. You just need to ensure you buy large nerites and not the small horned varieties.

That's good to know.

I haven't got a river setup, but a huge filter with a turnover of at least 10x an hour. The tank is around 60% stocked and my Stiphodon does fine. I think turnover is more important than flow if that makes sense!

i don't suppose any of you guys have got any pictures of
them in your aquariums that you would share do you ?

i don't suppose any of you guys have got any pictures of
them in your aquariums that you would share do you ?

- See more at: http://www.thinkfish.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic,2157.msg20503/topicseen.html#new

It might also help to google videos of fish you like, to see how they behave/move around and the different set-ups they're in - lots of people have put videos of their fish on YouTube.