Cranial Dump

Along with the algae eaters, we also bought a Golden Mystery Snail this weekend to help withe algae control. So far the snail is being rather elusive. I had treated the water with an antibiotic for a few days last week in case the Pleco that died so soon was sick. I [...]

I bought two cute little algae eaters this weekend at PetSmart. They will not grow bigger than 1.5″, which is very small for this type of fish, but I purposes chose these little guys from among the several algae eaters available. I made the 45 mile round trip to a pet store that [...]

I woke up this morning to find that the Pleco algae eater I just bought four days ago had died. I haven’t had a fatality in this aquarium before, so I think the fish was not well when I bought it.
Will head out to buy the smaller type of algae eater I found while [...]

Brown algae is taking over the aquarium. The algae started very slowly with a small patch in the back of the aquarium. It was not growing on the artificial logs or the artificial plants so I just scraped it off the glass as best as I could when I did weekly water changes, [...]