Jeremy93ls

Greetings all. This place is GREAT. I've learned a great deal and saved a ton of money reading the threads here on APC.

I've got a simple 10G planted tank with Aquarium_dot_com substrate, driftwood, Rena XP1, Rena Smart heater and about 30 watts of swirly compact florescent light. No C02 but i use Flourish and Excel.

12 Neon Tetras and an Apple Snail have done well for a few months until I began getting brown algae/diatoms all over the glass and Amazon Swords. I was scraping the glass every few days and my Swords were looking bad. I searched for remedies here and settled on adding a few Otocinclus to see what would happen.

2 tiny Otos removed 90% of that nasty orange/brown stuff within 24 hours. I got home yesterday and couldn't believe my eyes. Your mileage may vary but I'm sold on these little critters.

Will I need to supplement their diet after the diatoms are gone?

Anafranil

Diatoms are the least problematic algae,they go away with almost all algae eating fish.You should consider adding some more ottos as they feel more comfortable in a school,and feed them a couple of algae wafers a day or any other tablet food suitible for herbivorous fish.