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I have Amano shrimp, Oto catfish and siamese algae eaters. They all do a great job at grazing on algae. The shrimp and Otos started eating algae from day 1. The SAEs spent the first 3 weeks happily swimming around and ignoring all algae. But now they are constantly grazing on it.

My 45gal tank.

I never quarantined any of my plants. I have 22 in my 45gal tank. For fertilizer, the anubias feeds from the the leaves and will need a liquid fertilizer. The others feed from their roots. I would use root tabs for those. I have been using Flourish Comprehensive and Flourish root tabs.

They finally started grazing on the hair algae. I also started feeding my other fish once a day only instead of twice. My guess is that that you have to keep the SAEs hungry. I seem to have a lot more hair algae now on the anubias and java ferns so I might buy a few more SAEs.

Starting to look more and more like a freebie guppy.

Lol.

I added plants and neon tetras about a week ago.

This is what I thought because of the tail. But I don’t have any guppies in the tank. Weird

I just saw this fry in my tank. The tank has otocinctus, SAEs, neon tetras, amano shrimp, and harlequin rasboras. My guess is that it is a harlequin.

Nice tank. What's the name of the plant (the one with the rhizome) in the middle on the driftwood?

I don't have any nerite snails. May be my otocinctus and amano shrimps will eventually eat it.

I have algae growing on driftwood. I don't know what type it is. Can someone tell me what it is?

Based on your description, they are SAEs. May be they are just not hungry enough since they nibble on the flakes I give the tetras. Time will tell. In the mean time they are nice to watch.

This is what the fish store sold me. But I am having my doubts. I understand that there is another fiish, flying fox, which looks like the SAEs.

I am with you on that one. I don’t have a lot of algae. I bought them just in case. I found out in my case that strong light was the main cause of algae blooms. So I cut down the intensity and reduced blue light considerably.

I bought 3 last week. They seem to be very happy swimming with a school of tetras and staying away from any kind of algae. Lol

I use Flourish excel. I cannot actually tell if it is helping the plants grow. But in the early days when I had no fish yet, I double dosed it to get rid of the algae which was getting out of control. it killed all the algae in a couple of days. Now I just put in the right dose everyday...

Thanks.

My new 45 gal tank. 5 weeks old.

Since I have been using Flourish, and I still have a lot left, I bought flourish root tabs for now. We'll see how it goes. Thanks for all your replies guys.