Albino Pleco

[SeaSerpant]

I bought a albino pleco for my algae and nothing for my cyano, Here are some pics of the pleco/algae.

Algae (cyano)
http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh36/SeaSerpant/IMG_2957.jpg
http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh36/SeaSerpant/IMG_2958.jpg
Albino Pleco
http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh36/SeaSerpant/IMG_2952.jpg
http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh36/SeaSerpant/IMG_2953.jpg
http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh36/SeaSerpant/IMG_2954.jpg
http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh36/SeaSerpant/IMG_2955.jpg
http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh36/SeaSerpant/IMG_2956.jpg

The Pleco pics are bad because he is behind a rock and i had to take them from on top. Tell me what you think.

[jslaney]

Sounds like you have a big bioload. The best thing you can do to prevent algea is to limit feeding and do lots of water changes. Plecos are good but they only eat certain kinds of algea. You obviously know they wont eat cyano, but they also (from my experiance) dont eat hair algea. They also can damage thin leaved plants. I would take him back and get a bunch of octocinculus (Sp.?) they are neat little algea eaters. I know its tempting to get every fish out there but I found after lots of tanks with every kind of fish that species only tanks are much nicer.

Ok I kinda went off on a tangent there but good luck and dont get frustrated.

If you are doing a planted tank I would check out ...

http://www.thekrib.com/Plants/

Its a pretty old school site but has lots of really good threads.

Good Luck,

Jon

[SeaSerpant]

Thanks. i was at winter camp for the last 3 days so thats why slow response. I have turned the lighting off for a 6 period day so probably next week the brown algae will be gone. (almost is already) thanks again. I'll check out that site.