Anyone had experience keeping red nose shrimp with opae ula? My LFS recently got red nose shrimp and im hoping it will help with hair algae but im not sure it will be safe for opae ula floaters.
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Red nose tankmate
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Re: Red nose tankmate
Information on them says they can cohabit with Opae's but they need more space and need a filtered tank. I had never heard of them before. One site says you can have 2 per gallon of water while you can have nearly 50 Opae's in a gallon container.
Re: Red nose tankmate
My tank is a 7 gallon cube with about 100 opaes in it. What you do think? Should i get 1 red nose to take care of the hair algae?
Re: Red nose tankmate
If hair algae is taking over the tank then it's likely a symptom of another issue (i.e. excess nutrients), and one new shrimp probably won't solve that. Better to remove the hair algae manually and cease feeding until other algae can increase enough to outcompete it.
Re: Red nose tankmate
Varanus is right. Also, red nose shrimp do not eat hair algae at all, and they are not used to low nutrient environments, so, over time they will just starve to death. In terms of salinity, they can definitely hang in there though.