[APD] Algea Test Tank

["Seweryn Bialasiewicz" <s_bialasiewicz at hotmail_com>]

Hello all,

Recently I set up a 40L quarantine tank, and needed to stock it with some 
fish to get it cycled. So I decided I would kill 2 birds w/ one stone and do 
a little test on fish with reputations for eating algea. First, the tank is 
bare bottom, with a few flat rocks, some hornwort and java moss. Heater and 
sponge filter, but no light other than ambient and from my main tank, which 
it sits next to. I initially put in 5 guppies and a fistfull of green beard 
algae (or is it hair algae? I can never keep the names straight. It's rough 
single stranded green algae with branches that forms large hairy clumps that 
are semi-attached to plants- more like tangled in really). Anyway, I put in 
a medium black molly and 2 American Flag Fish. A week later, I had not 
noticed any decrease in algae. Observed only the occasional nibble from the 
flag fish, and that was mostly on the rocks and filter. Molly seemed to be 
preoccupied with mouthing the glass bottom.
So I went and bought 6 SAE's. That was 2 days ago, so i'll give 'em a week.
That's about it for my grand experiment so far. Anyone have any comments or 
suggestions?

-Seweryn

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