JE47

Yes, I see your point. But I have heard otos more exclusively feed on algae and biofilm alone as opposed to hillstream loaches who will eat things other than just algae.

Tank Size: 29 gallons Sand substrate Low equipment just HOB filter, and heater I do not run CO2 I do use a liquid fertilizer and have a plant substrate underneath the sand. I will try to post photos later tonight or tomorrow

As far as adding more plant mass what would you advise are the best plants for that and or the fastest growing. I do have water lettuce currently as a floater plant Java fern, dwarf sagittaria subulata, Hygrophila Corymbosa compacta, and a moss of some sort

I currently have a 29 gallon tank stocked with 10 white clouds, 5 peppered corydoras, 3 amano shrimp, and a king of the tank a calm sedate plakat betta. I also have a clown pleco who I am looking to rehome via my local fish store. I was hoping to add another kind of algae grazer but was unsure which is better hillstream loaches or otos? I have heard that otos can starve easily if there is not enough algae so I lean more towards the loaches but I am unsure.

Thanks for all the helpful advice it helps make sense of my algae problems. And weather I need an algae eating crew.

I'm undecided between Otos of Hillstream Loaches? Does anyone have experience with them as far as who is the better algae eater?

Hi, I am a relatively new fish keeper I have been keeping fish for about 2 years at this point except they were not back to back years. I had a first fish tank at age 10 it was a 10 gallon tank with glowlight tetras a common clown pleco and ghost shrimp. Needless to say it was kinda a disaster none of my fish survived super long and my poor parents and I where clueless as to the reason why (Improper Cycling). A year later the seal broke on the tank and that was that. Jumping back into fish keeping quite a few years later I now have a 29 gallon tank planted with 10 Golden White Cloud Mountain Minnows, 6 peppered corydoras, 3 amano shrimp, 1 clown pleco. I hope my skills have improved slightly and the corydoras have bred several times with 8 babies surviving so I suspect the fish are happy. I also hope to continuing growing my understanding of fish keeping by being in this forum.

I personally use Growth Juice from Dustin's fishtanks but I have used Seachem Flourish and Aquarium Co-op's Easy Green. All of the fertilizers work in my opinion but I would probably recommend either Aquarium Co-op's stuff or Dustin's.

Wow! It looks beautiful

I know that algae is formed by a number of reasons which I have attempted to correct an imbalance of nutrients too much light which has significantly helped decrease the amount of algae that grows in my tank but I still have some pop up especially on the aquarium plants. So I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with algae eaters and which ones in you opinion is the best? I do already have some Amano Shrimp which do help but not quite enough.

Hi, I was wondering weather anyone could offer some help with my white cloud mountain minnow breeding project. I have a ratio of 7M/3F and was wondering what is the best way to go about breeding them? How soon does it take the eggs to Hatch and can the newborns eat microworms right away?