Algae Eater Fish for Sale: Your Aquarium Clean Up Crew

It depends on the algae. The Siamese algae eater tackles black beard and hair algae, Amano shrimp clear hair and thread algae, and nerite snails such as the zebra nerite remove green spot algae from glass and leaves. Our algae eaters guide explains more.

Siamese algae eaters grow to around 15cm and are active swimmers, so they need a tank of 100 litres or more. They are peaceful and among the few fish that eat black beard algae.

They can become territorial as they grow. The gold Chinese algae eater can reach over 20cm and may chase slow or flat bodied fish as an adult, so keep it with robust, fast moving tank mates in a larger tank.

Yes. Algae alone is rarely enough, especially in a clean tank, so give algae eating fish sinking algae wafers or blanched vegetables, and offer shrimp and snails a suitable food a few times a week.

Yes, and they are ideal for planted and nano tanks where algae eating fish would grow too big. Browse our freshwater shrimp and aquarium snails, or read about the best algae eating shrimp.

They help keep it under control, but algae usually comes from too much light or too many nutrients. Keep lighting to around eight hours a day, avoid overfeeding and keep up regular partial water changes.

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