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Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 8:00 pm
by Raul-7
Great! Because I'm keeping them with Zebra pleco fry; who are also very shy, and slow.
Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 8:23 pm
by badflash
Plecos are generally fine with shrimp.
Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 6:04 am
by beckypyyeung
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.
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 6:17 am
by diki
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.
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 3:08 pm
by badflash
What are malayan ?
Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 8:25 pm
by Mustafa
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.