Otos and producing the algae they like to eat..

Bear with me because I'm pretty bad at identifying algae. I have my otos which are doing great in quarantine. They are munching on the algae in that tank. I'm not sure the actual name of this algae, but I've always called it standard issue algae.




My goal was to get the algae up in my main tank for when they go there, so I opened the blinds and let there be light. I do dose co2 and it's planted. I received a bunch of hair algae and some others. I read that they don't like hair algae, and then on one of my driftwood pieces it looks like black beard algae but I don't know. Either way I've read they don't eat that either. How do I get the algae I want? Or do they just prefer other algae over hair/BB, but will eat it if that's all there is? Kind of like if you were offered a steak and a spam, you'd prob eat the steak...but if there was only spam and you were hungry you would eat spam.

Anywho here's pictures of the algae in my main tank.

I'm pretty sure this is hair algae




Is this black beard?



I just call this rust algae



I also have these, are they also hair?




Kind of a dust algae .... or a dirty leaf ?



Any of these a good dinner for otos and any tips how to get rid of the ones I don't want, but keep the ones I do? Maybe I should have thought through the otos a bit more. That hair algae is going to drive me nuts.

 

They will find a lot of things to clean off of your plants even things we can’t see I know they love diatoms as far as the hair and BBA I would remove that or if the tank is big enough you could add a couple true SAE to rid the BBA manual removal of the hair algae would be best sooner than later IMO. Another way to try to get rid of BBA is spot dosing with a syringe of h2o2 or flourish excel

 

They will find a lot of things to clean off of your plants even things we can’t see I know they love diatoms as far as the hair and BBA I would remove that or if the tank is big enough you could add a couple true SAE to rid the BBA manual removal of the hair algae would be best sooner than later IMO. Another way to try to get rid of BBA is spot dosing with a syringe of h2o2 or flourish excel

As weird as this sounds the black beard doesn't bother me as much as the hair. The BB kind of blends in with the color of the log, but the hair algae is just everywhere. So annoying to look at. I have excel so I'll that, but it won't affect the moss the hair algae is attached to?

 

As weird as this sounds the black beard doesn't bother me as much as the hair. The BB kind of blends in with the color of the log, but the hair algae is just everywhere. So annoying to look at. I have excel so I'll that, but it won't affect the moss the hair algae is attached to?

I was only suggesting spot dosing the BBA .. the hair algae I would take a new toothbrush or pipe cleaner with the bristles and try to wrap up as much as u can and manually remove it

 

I was only suggesting spot dosing the BBA .. the hair algae I would take a new toothbrush or pipe cleaner with the bristles and try to wrap up as much as u can and manually remove it

Oh **** haha yeah I'll do the manual removal for the hair algae.