Hello, have a great weekend everyone! It was another beautiful weekend, and the weather in Guangzhou was great! Today is sunny and cloudy, and may be accompanied by local showers, aha! Joke. We got back to the point, yesterday we talked to you about the topic of fish tank algae, algae is indeed people love and hate ah! Today we will talk about how to effectively control algae, because it is impossible to completely eliminate algae, what we can do is to control their number in a reasonable range, so that the entire ecosystem of the fish tank can operate more balanced.
Biological control, as the name suggests, is to help control algae through organisms, in nature, many organisms are eating algae and moss for a living, we can use these organisms and the original ornamental fish life habits in the fish tank commonality, to let them help us "lay hands" to effectively control the effect of algae.
Snails are one of the most important. Friends who have played the grass tank know that the snail is a hand that controls the algae on the wall of the tank, and it can be said that everywhere you go, the piece of algae does not stay! It is a little slow to climb, the mouth is relatively small, and the shape of the scraped algae is irregular, if there is a friend with obsessive-compulsive disorder, it is estimated that it will be crazy, but it does not matter, give them some time, they will do well.
However, different kinds of snails like to eat different algae, and the effect of algae control is also different. Let's briefly introduce the common snails on the market, and everyone chooses themselves. (Friends are also welcome to add in the comment area)
(1) Apple snail
This snail is not unfamiliar to everyone, the biggest impression is not to get rid of algae, but to burst the cylinder (crazy breeding of small apple snails), although the apple snail will eat algae, but the effect is not so obvious, but the explosion of the cylinder brought more trouble, so, crazy people are not very recommended to use.
(2) Golden snail
This snail is an improved version of the Fushou snail, artificially improved into a golden yellow shell, the size can grow to a very large, with a certain ornamentality, but the large snail not only eats algae, because the amount of food is large, so the algae are eaten, eat aquatic grass, because the head is large, the teeth are sharp, the general small snail does not move the water weeds, under their mouths has become a delicacy, so it is, there is a grass tank or do not raise golden snails, naked tanks of fish, can be considered.
(3) Abalone snail
This snail is currently recognized in the circle as the best snail for algae removal, because its shell is a semi-circle, much like abalone, so the name is abalone snail, but due to the shape of the problem, it is usually relatively difficult to catch. Basically only eats algae, so it is recognized as a "good snail", and the grass tank is preferred.
(4) Malay snail
"Thailand Singapore Indonesia", hahaha! The Malay snail is a snail from Malaysia, and its appearance is also very personal, with a sharp shell and a high degree of recognition. They are small, eat algae do not eat aquatic weeds, and there is a habit, they like to drill into the sand bottom, so they have the effect of activating the bottom bed, and we mentioned the field snail has a similar effect, crazy people have not raised, but ready to start, you can also try.
(5) Zebra snail
Also called watermelon snail, this is a kind of soda snail (that is, semi-brackish water domain), but now artificial improvement can also live in fresh water, but the feeding difficulty is relatively large, like the ph high hard water, if it is soft water will appear shell phenomenon, crazy people have been raised before, it is indeed not good to raise, but the ornamental is still very strong, the water quality control is more powerful friends can start to try.
The above is the content shared today, the snail of biological control algae, in fact, the snail was introduced into the aquarium circle, at the beginning it was due to the tool to help control the algae, and in the later feeding process, we found that the snail is also very beautiful, very ornamental, and then slowly evolved into an ornamental snail. Here the madman can't help but sigh that nature is all magical, and natural things are beautiful, but whether we find it or not. In the past 1-2 years, the most popular native fish, that is, we have found the beauty of native fish, ordinary salmon, crucian carp after a careful breeding, in the glass tank is also beautiful ah!
Sure enough: "There is no lack of beauty in the world, but there is a lack of eyes that are good at finding beauty"!
Tomorrow we will continue to share: the shrimp of biological control.
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