Algae removal
There is too much algae in the tank, what to do? We are not afraid, because the strongest army in history is coming! All kinds of creatures are grouped to remove algae!
Algae is an important part of the ecological balance of fish tanks. It can be said that algae is the most efficient weapon to eliminate NO3. I know you hate NO3 and you hate algae, but algae has been silently helping you eat NO3, and from this point of view, algae is also a hero.
A reasonable tank, NO3, PO4, algae, various organics plus your organism, will achieve a reasonable balance. Algae is an indispensable link, and it does not have to be eliminated.
Especially when organisms eat algae, while organisms eat algae in large quantities, the NO3 in your tank will also increase due to the lack of algae absorption. Therefore, it is too late to stop at the right time. Although the algae army is good, it is not the more the merrier
All hanging classes
1
Amount of algae eaten: ★★★★★
Stool volume: ★★★★★
How clean is it to eat algae: ★★★
Algae varieties: green filamentous algae, other filamentous algae (see figure below)
60 cylinders need: 1 medium-sized crane (take the 60cm square cylinder as an example, we take it and so on)
Disadvantages: Strong sense of territory
Hanging class This has nothing to say, except for the green algae first-class stick. A full tank of algae, nibbled in a day or two. As long as a cylinder is not too small, at least one hanging is necessary.
An extra sentence, tengu hanging / golden retriever hanging also eat fungus algae oh ~
Algae snails
2
Amount of algae eaten: ★★★★
Algae eating varieties: mainly attacking brown algae
60 cylinders required: 2-3 medium-sized algae snails
Disadvantages: Pushing down corals, will multiply in large quantities
Algae snails are a must-have in many tanks and are used to clean up brown algae. But I always feel that this goods are more than eating (although this is not scientific)... In short, it should be very uneconomical to think about...
The only disadvantage of the algae snail is that it eats algae regardless of its disregard, and it will often push down the coral. Knocking candy brains together, pushing small buttons off living rocks, and so on.
So, if you're going to buy algae snails, remember, try to buy small ones, even if you buy more. Don't be silly. The big force is also big, and the probability of tearing down the coral is much greater
Hermit snail
3
Stool volume: ★★★★
How clean is it to eat algae: ★★★★
Eat algae varieties: all kinds of weeds
60 cylinders required: 2 small ones
Cons: Tear down corals
The hermit crab is my recommended algae removal organism because the ability to remove algae is really too strong. All kinds of messy brown and brown hairy algae can be removed by him, and the stones he has chewed are as clean as they have been corroded... If you have a lot of algae in the tank, you can consider it.
The disadvantage is also to push down the coral, carrying its bulky shell, where to go, where the coral falls... The best way is to glue the small corals with Aaron hair gel.
By the way, to raise hermit crabs, remember to put a few large empty shells in the tank so that they can grow up and change their shells.
Watermelon planers
4
Stool volume: ★★★★★★★★★★★ ...
Algae variety: Brown algae
60 cylinders required: 1 medium size
Disadvantages: The amount of feces is unscientifically exceeded
I'm exaggerating to give so many stars, though again it's unscientific. But it doesn't matter, you just understand. Anyway, what I want to say is that although this product eats brown algae, it is indispensable, but the feces are really hehehehehe
In the case of the same size, the watermelon planer is much larger than the amount of feces in the golden hanging, and the fecal patch is much larger...
Well, it probably borrowed the power of the flood from somewhere to pull so much. At first you will think that watermelon planing is so cute, and soon you will be troubled by this well-deserved dung machine.
By the way, watermelon planing is a very fierce fish, territorial awareness is also very strong, if there is a watermelon planer in a tank, you can no longer raise fish of the same family (fish family).
Electric light crab
5
Amount of algae eaten: ★★★
Stool volume: ★★
How clean is it to eat algae: ★★
Algae variety: Weedy algae in the dark
Cons: If the length is too large, it will be a threat to the fish
The electric light crab is not so much used to remove algae as it is for ornamentation... Although it also eats weeds, it does not eat much, and because of its timidity, it will silently hide in the cracks of stones every day.
If it grows too big, it is a threat to small fish.
Fake sheep shrimp
6
Eat algae varieties: miscellaneous algae, also eat some small feather algae
60 cylinders required: at least 4 pcs
Cons: Will gnaw on injured corals
The flooding of small feathered algae mainly depends on your hand plucking, hand brushing, brushing to the remaining short hair, a large number of fake sheep shrimp to eat.
Fake sheep shrimp is a very harmless little creature, does not threaten fish, will not push down corals, because they think they are ugly, and they will not come out during the day. Only in the dead of night, silently come out to remove algae.
The amount of stool is also very small... You can hardly see it defecating anyway. There is only one small problem, when the coral in the tank is accidentally injured and deboned, it will sometimes come to gnaw on the injured part, which will cause the coral to be injured more severely.
Stone turtle
7
Amount of algae eaten: ★★
Stool volume: ★
60 cylinders required: ???
Cons: Lazy
Believe me, don't buy such a lazy creature. I can't climb a few miles a day, and it's better for him to eat algae than I can eat myself. And many people should think it's ugly!
sea urchin
8
How clean is it to eat algae: ★★★★★
Algae varieties: All algae, including calcium algae
60 cylinders required: 1 small one
Disadvantages: Easy to push down small pieces of coral, slightly less efficient
Sea urchin can be said to be a thorough eating of any algae, the taste is more extensive, not picky eating, encounter what algae to eat what algae. The most special thing is that this product also eats calcium algae... In short, it will chew the stone particularly clean, I don't know if this is an advantage or a disadvantage? Sometimes they run around with buttons on their backs...
If you are obsessive-compulsive, it is recommended that you use sea urchins, because it is the cleanest of all living things (followed by the hermit crab), except that it walks a little slower and has limited ability to nibble on it every day.
Bull's eye snail (salamander)
9
Algae varieties: miscellaneous algae and brown algae
60 cylinders required: at least 3-4 m
Cons: Too big will tear down the coral
Today's protagonist has finally appeared! Dangdangdang ~ is bull's eye snail. Few people may have heard of this snail, but it is indeed much cleaner to chew algae, and the efficiency is not known to be much higher than that of ordinary algae snails.
The feces discharged by the bull's eye snail are finer and easier to decompose, at least you will no longer see the tank full of thick and long algae snail feces...
The biggest advantage of bull's eye snail is that it is really clean. How clean is it? Show you my cylinder bottom:
Because it looks good, I use a white cylinder bottom. White also has a disadvantage, that is, once the algae is very, very obvious. So I used bull's eye snails. Without manual cleaning for a month, the bottom of the cylinder can remain so clean... It's all the credit of the bull's eye snail.
Another benefit of the bull's-eye snail is that it does not multiply in large quantities. I believe that many people are troubled by the full tank of nasty algae snail BB, but the bull's eye snail will not breed in the fish tank ~
Take a step back, if you really don't want bull's eye snails one day, you can still deal with it like this:
Note: The original text [Introduction to Basic Algae Removal Organisms] Group to remove algae! Author: Yu Xi
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