Algae eater fired, tank over run with green algae!

OnixRevolution

My tank has been over run with green slimy algae and my little algae eater wont take care of it. Is there another eater that will take care of that, or any kind of treatment to make it go away?

UPDATE: Unfortuneatly he died, so now I dont have an eater in there.

Fish Addict · Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 12:52 pm Post subject:

what size tank ? what are your reading's

Nameless · Senior Member Joined: 04 Jun 2004 Posts: 958

Is the tank in direct sunlight, how much light does it get, how long do you leave your lights on?

A lot of people from this forum would agree that probaly the best algae eater are otos, but they need other things than algae to eat, so you can give them algae wafers i think to supplement their diet.

OnixRevolution · Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 2:10 am Post subject:

10 gallon tank, out of direct sunlight, usually the light is on from 10am to 10pm. I feed them twice, once in the morning, once at night. I dont know my readings, but last time I had it checked, everything was normal.

Trickster · Member Joined: 05 Apr 2005 Posts: 309 Location: My Chair

12 hours is to long to keep light on, i say 8 hours no more in my opinion. (also depends on the fish, my fish hate even 1 second of the shitty flourescent light i got).

You should get an orange spotted algea eater (might go under a diffrent name in ur lfs). They like mini plecos, (Cuz they are mini plecos).

They clean well and eat a good amount, im getting one in my 10g, they get only about 4 inch so they good in a 10g, but only get 1.

Nameless · Senior Member Joined: 04 Jun 2004 Posts: 958

Again, an oto may help, trying cleaning reuglarly, and as Trickster said, maybe your light is on for too long i have mine for about 7-8 hours a day and so far i have no algae problems.