Good Algae Eating Shrimp?

Raul-7 · Post by **Raul-7** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 8:00 pm

Great! Because I'm keeping them with Zebra pleco fry; who are also very shy, and slow.

badflash · Post by **badflash** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 8:23 pm

Plecos are generally fine with shrimp.

beckypyyeung · Post by **beckypyyeung** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 6:04 am

I only have experience with Tiger, Bee and Cherry. I find Tiger Shrimp the best algae eater.

My experiment:
I grew some water grass in my goldfish tank. Algae grew very fast on the water grass. When the water grass got a lot of algae on the surface, I gave it to my tiger shrimps who ate all algae in a few hours and the water grass looked fresh again.

diki · Post by **diki** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 6:17 am

For hair algae (green ones), malayan are also good at eating them. Whenever I have this problem, I just throw them to the malayan shrimp tank and the hair algae would be gone in a day or 2.

badflash · Post by **badflash** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 3:08 pm

What are malayan ?

Post by **Mustafa** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 8:25 pm

badflash wrote:What are malayan ?

good question. apparently, in southeast asia they call a native shrimp that comes in various colors (or maybe even several closely related species) "malayan shrimp." I don't think they are available in the US.