vancat

Are there any fish that eat BBA besides SAEs? My SAE has retired and I'm having trouble finding a young'un!

Raul-7

There's a lot of fish/shrimp that would love BBA, here's a few-
Otos (any species)
Amano Shrimp (Caridina japonica)
Red Cherry Shrimp (Neocaridina sinensis)

JLudwig

I've never seen those fish/shrimp eat BBA, oto eat spot/dust/brown algaes, shrimp for certain types of hair, SAEs will eat hair and BBA and mosses and Rotala sp. and Mayaca sp. ...etc

Spot treat with peroxide, stay below 1/4cup / 50 gallons once a week and remove by hand if you don't want SAEs... You might be able to spot treat a little heavier than that, but I think what I recommended is pretty safe...

Jeff

vancat

Yup, I have some amanos, but evidently you need LOADS of them to make a dent. I understand nobody does it better than SAEs....

but thanks!

trenac

SAE's will only eat new growth of BBA not the established growth. You will need to pull the established growth off by hand & increase C02/micros.

vancat

already increased the CO2...
oh no, manual labor!!
thank you.