Red Cherry Shrimp Algae Diet

jonathan03 · Post by **jonathan03** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 7:18 pm

In my tanks, I have some black hair algae and green spot algae. I was wondering if red cherry shrimp will eat it? If not, will any other shrimp eat it? The green spot algae is very tough. I'm wondering if they will be able to get it off?

shrimpboyLA · Post by **shrimpboyLA** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 8:39 pm

From my experience the Cherry Red's scores a 6 out of 10 in eating algae compared to the Amano's which in my book scores a 8.

My Cherry Red's will pick at the surface of leaves but will not touch hair algae of any kind and they do nuts on Blood Worms.

Amano's will eat most algae but the blue hair bush algae.

I use asian stripe snails for the green spots type algae.

chlorophyll · Post by **chlorophyll** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 11:41 pm

wow, those are pretty snails.

retardo · Post by **retardo** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 12:25 pm

where'd u get the snails? they aren't the common ramshorn or mts you can find easily in an lfs. i have a spot algae problem that i'd love to have some help with. thanx.

rich

MAck · Post by **MAck** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 1:42 pm

Which snail is better in fighting with algae the apple snail or the asian stripe snail?

jonathan03 · Post by **jonathan03** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 6:28 pm

Thanks for the suggestions. Are there any creatures that will eat the blue/black bush algae? I have a fair amount growing on my sword plant and I was just removing it manually.