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Old 04-16-2007, 04:47 AM
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Default Does anything eat (FW) hair algae?

I have patches of hair algae growing in between Lilaeopsis brasiliensis (Brazillian micro-sword, it's sort of like grass). The microsword is pretty delicate and if I try to pinch the algae out I usually end up pulling out clumps of the sword.

Does anything eat hair algae like a champion that could help me out with keeping the swords free of the nuisance hair algae?

So far in the tank I have a farlowella cat, 3 Siamese algae eaters, 2 oto's, various snails that hitchhiked on the plants (ramshorns plus something else) plus Malaysian trumpet snails ... so far none of these guys seem to be really going at the stuff I've got growing in there ..

I kind of suspect the ultimate answer is still careful manual removal, but I'm wondering what else I could try. What about algae eating shrimp?
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