re: Hair algae

• To: Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com
• Subject: re: Hair algae
• From: Cynthia Powers <cyn at metronet_com>
• Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 21:49:30 -0600 (CST)
• In-Reply-To: <199602172039.PAA26306 at looney_actwin.com>

This will be one of at least seven messages saying the same thing:

Get a SAE (Siamese algae eater) - Epalzeorhynchus siamensis.

:)

Cynthia

> It appears I've got some hair algae started in my tank.  (40g octo,
> half-dozen small cats and otos, lots of plants.)
> 
> It only got bad when I got the pH up to around 8.0 and the hardness up
> in the 2/3 range.
> 
> I hate cleaning tanks (witness the oto's), so is there anything anyone
> can suggest to eat/destroy the hair algae?  will black mollies eat
> this sort of algae?

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