On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 20:07:20 GMT, "cabaloz"
wrote:

Do yourself a great favour and get a Bristle Nose Pleco or 2. These guys are
the Hoovers of the fish world so far as algae is concerned.
I have a dwarf Anubia, which over the months became covered in algae. I
purchased a couple of 2.5cm Bristle Nose plecos and over two days and
nights, these little dudes completey cleaned the leaves of algae.



How large do the Bristle Nose Plecos get? I have marbled Plecos, 3 in
my 75 gallon tank and they are doing fine and after 2 years are less
than 4 inches. However, I have lost several in my 10 gallon tanks.
I don't know why. All my tanks' fish get flake food. One of the 10
gallon tanks had lots of algae. I like having a variety of
scavengers, but would hate to buy more plecos for the 10 gallon tanks
and have them die or get too large.

dick