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Re: Eating Hair algae / Pencil Fish
Peter said...
>i've heard that hornworts contains an allelopathic behavior to algaes. which
>means, they will prevent algae from growing in their colony. have any of you
>heard that before?
Yes I have with respect to cyanobacteria, but I don't believe it.
Bryan Olynyk said...
>I recently put in 9 Pencil Fish into my 108gal and my hair algae is comming
>under control now. My problem was that I was getting hair algae growing on
>the gravel and on and in between my glossostigma.
>Pencil Fish swim around and rip off one strand of hair algae at a time.
I'm just curious as to which species of pencilfish you added.
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Dave Whittaker
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