Crabs, Snails & Algae Eaters

Algae eaters must be considered as you think about putting up an aquarium and some fishes inside your abode. In fact, they form as one of the best additions in your little marine world. What you have to remember though is to treat them like your own pets too and be sure that you include them with the other compatible species. They should also be provided with all their essentials so that they will be able to fulfill their mission in the course of their existence. There are cases when you own a lot of fish tanks. With this given circumstance, you can opt to transfer them into the tank that is faced with the problems with algae.

Take a look at some of the popular algae eaters below.

The Siamese algae eater. It eats up the brush and thread algae and the planarians or flatworms.

The Caridina Japonica. It is known today as the Caridina multidentata. Other names of which are the Yamato numa-ebi and Amano Shrimp. It is regarded to be the best shrimp that eats algae and also spends time eating the dead plant detritus along with cleaning those leftover fish food.

Malaysian Trumpet snail. It consumes the leftover food, dead plants, but not the live plants. It usually comes out at night and stays inside the gravel by day.

The Ramshorn snail. It eats the algae coating the plants, the leftover food, and the dead plants.

The Ancistrus.It does the same job but be sure to feed it with green foods or else it may feed on the soft plants inside the aquarium.

You should keep in mind that the algae eaters are just there to help you combat the problem. You still have a major responsibility to take. To be able to effectively solve the issue, what you must do is to put several kinds of these species basically because they have their own specialty and they swim in different levels as well.