Algea on plants

ryanp15

Superstar Fish
Oct 22, 2002
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I have noticed that my amazon sword plants are getting brown algea on their leaves and it is repulsive. I have manually removed it but it keeps coming back and it's really ugly. Does anyone know what I can do to get rid of this little problem? Thanks. ;D
 

cra

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Oct 22, 2002
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If you want a natural way get some otocinclus.  They are a very small type of catfish and they are great at eating algae, just make sure you have a lot of it when you introduce them to the tank or they may die because they rarely eat on their journey from the wild until they are sold.  The cleaned my 6 gallon with everything coated with a lyer of algae in about 4 days.  Then all the need is some sinking algae waifers.