5 gallon

[Fishman1995]

Im going to be adding in some more stuff to my 5 gallon, i have a male betta and gorami in there. Is there a tiny species of Algae eater that i can add. if not the il just get a nerite snail. also im thinkin 3 GS's goin in to. Is there any other tiny algae eater species i can add in?

 

[Twiggles]

... shrimp?

 

[Fishman1995]

besides shrimps

 

[Twiggles]

well there's not much else in the way of algae eaters. If you don't want shrimp then like 3-4 nerite snails will have to suffice I guess. And if by "3 GS's" you mean golden snails, like mystery snails or w/e, I would advise against it. They actually pollute the water a lot, even with one in a ten gallon i found it produced so much waste. Nerite snails are better for algae.

 

[Fishman1995]

gs=Ghost Shrimp LOL

 

[Twiggles]

lol ah yes that would make sense too *twirlysmi
ghost shrimps are a good choice. Why is it that you don't want any algae eating shrimp?

 

[Fishman1995]

i prefer something more simple

 

[achase]

You don't have the room for any algae eaters. Oto's like to be in groups thus a 5 gallon is not enough and other algae eater types just get huge.

You can't really get more simple than shrimp.....besides snails.

 

[Twiggles]

You don't have the room for any algae eaters. Oto's like to be in groups thus a 5 gallon is not enough and other algae eater types just get huge.

You can't really get more simple than shrimp.....besides snails.

yes, exactly what I was trying to communicate. Snails and shrimp are your options ..

 

[bassbonediva]

I wouldn't do 3-4 nerites in a 5gal unless they're really small, just because of space issues. A 5gal really isn't that big.

Also, I have four ghost shrimp in my 5gal bowfront and they actually take up more space than I thought they would.

 

[achase]

Personally I wouldn't really add anything to combat the algae in your 5 gallon because everything will take of valuable space in an already small environment.

When my 5 gallon has algae on the sides I just manually remove it. But I don't get that much algae for it to be a hassle. You could get one of those algae magnets that you drag across the sides to scrub away the algae.

 

[bassbonediva]

That's a good point, achase. If your parameters are stable, you don't have your light on for too long and you don't overfeed, you shouldn't have problems with algae. The only tanks I'm having algae problems with right now are my 29gal (too much light and no CO2...yet) and my 55gal (having serious issues with diatoms, which is weird 'cuz I actually don't feed that much). Added to that, a 5gal tank really isn't THAT big, so cleaning it manually should take all of 5 minutes.