Amano shrimp - are they named after the Japanese tank landscape chap?
Cheers, Andrew
Julie Zeppieri wrote:
>I've never seen a bow go after Black Bottle Brush algaes, sadly. Also, if
>you want to keep your plants safe, you should be sure they get their greens
>in what you *feed* them and not just rely on what's in the tank. This may
>make them a bit lazy, but better than them eating the leaves off your Myaca
>or something.
>
>You may want to employ a crew of Amano or other algae-eating shrimps as a
>backup. That and the shrimps are pretty cool critters in their own right. If
>you use SAEs to keep the black algae down, be aware they will go after your
>fine-leaved plants as well, especially when they are larger. I am not aware
>of another critter that will eat the black algae, and I have had bad results
>with chemical controls for this -- rare fish died and it was not pretty.
>:-( I no longer trust chemical controls for black algae. Hopefully, you
>will not have problems with black algae and it will all be a moot point.
>
>Julie <><
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