another help needed..hehe..

surveying 4 LFS (only 2 open) around taman tun, jb..and i think i need some algae eater so my tank is under control..

could you recommend any of this?.still searching for flying fox or SAE..but damn..those are hard to find..only manage to found CAE (aggressive but not an effective algae eater people says, i dunno)

i did want to try introduce shrimp for the problem, but is it easier to manage shrimp over fish?.

all that are not algae eater. only suitable if you have sand in your tank, else they will die

since u from jb, why not u go to new oasis at tiram? they do have SAE, otto and yamato.

why not otto?

corydoras and loach inside the pics right?

yeah all are diggers...

plecos are not too shabby in cleaning as well... becoz my lfs only stock plecos... no otto or yamato T_T

still surveying LFS near skudai..tiram is quite far when u travelling after office hour..must wait for weekends..but this weekend is full..must wait next weekend..thats why i pusing2 somewhere near first..

thanks for the clarification though..


no otto found near me..hahaha..if have sure take one..


not sure about the name..i have problem remembering name/species..hahha..even people name also forgot..

my new Wave Point 4 x t5 tubes stopped working after 1 week. sad.

kasi claim sama dia... XD

Dear all experts, need help on green hair & black hair algae

my tank got alot green hair algae, on tank glasses, plant leaves, and have a minority of black hair algae. i got OTO fish, but seem they not eating them.
how to get rid of them?

check ur lights bro. might be too much for them esp bba.

on the hair algae, its due to ur nutrients too much and lights as well. need to manually remove it and reduce nutrient + lights.

hey..is local shrimp/river shrimp (shrimp for fish feeding) is algae controller?.

Plan to plant this red tiger lotus in my tank after flooding it.
Anyone with experience with this plant to share?

Otos wont touch it. U sometimes see them try to nibble on it, but once they realize it's hair algae, they'll get away from it.

Photoperiod needs to be reduced.

Nutrient wise, some say u should maintain so that ur other plants will grow well n ur tank will be cycled faster n the algae will go away. Some say need to reduce so that the algae will not have access to nutrition as well. I tried both way, didnt really help. Maybe cos my utricularia grows so slow.

U can try dosing excel. I found out that once u double the dose, the algae will start turning brown n become fragile and u can easily suck them out or brush them off. But if there is livestock, need to monitor them scared overdose.

IINM, sometimes at jurasic there also got otto.

green hair algae can be control by yamato. not otto. if u can get malayan shrimp, it would be great
black hair algae---> bba or staghorn? need to define it tho. bba u can do spot treatment by excel. staghorn quite difficult to deal with.

daily liquid diy fert with manual co2 injection (solenoid alrdy kaput less than 6 month ) staurogyne repens, glosso ramshorn snail, 2 otto bought 5 rcs with free moss.



without fert


Without co2 injection n fert no idea why it look so cloudy/murky from shot


i need bigger tank for them



Sorry bout the upside down photo , i already tried to rotate into teleng version also came out like this

This post has been edited by ajamgl: Oct 24 2015, 07:08 PM

hi sifus, wanna ask whether any of u have the experience of introducing chinese algae eater with other fish in a tank? bought 4 (2 golden, 2 with leopard spot-like chinese algae eater) after 2 weeks, my tetras, balloon molly are dropping dead. are they they cause of it?

CAE really nasty fish and very territory altho i find them funny.... i owned 3 before now left with 1 (age around 2+ years in different tank. Cant put inside my planted tank sure disaster). Eventually when it grow it will love those slime that covered ur fish. I have 1 huge CAE swimming lonely in 3 feet aquarium. Guess u know what happened in that tank

As for me , CAE kinda awesome fish i ever had. Such mystery fish.

*duh forgot to mentioned, cae only targetting slow moving fish or maybe ur fish already sick IMO (poisoning/water condition/fish disease) cae very hardy and can endure water conditions that would be toxic to many other aquarium fish. I never see him hitting on my other fish last time (molly). Even dead fish on bottom my cae wont touch compared to those cae in LFS.

This post has been edited by ajamgl: Oct 25 2015, 12:10 AM

but mine are barely 3cm in length only, and i guess that explains why those dead fishes are without their belly

lol mine proly 6inch-7inch long kinda the size of 2 finger. he too damn shy hiding in his pirate ship. he loves to watch my cat sleeping next to tank.

Guess what

my cat pooped directly to my hm plant last year by climbing on aquarium lamp

This post has been edited by ajamgl: Oct 25 2015, 12:24 AM

lol extra fert, must be pretty nasty to remove it