Has anybody got these and are they really that good to clean up the green fine algae?

They like to be in numbers and as a lot are wild caught they need good water conditions. They are good at cleaning algae (green hair) i think they the most

Out of curiosity what is Rainbow Warrior in French?

guerrier d'arc-en-ciel

This is a good translation site -

http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr

Does this still class as being on topic? It does have fish in the url!

Alan (not you alanmin4304), won't understand though, he's not a Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy fan!

Carla, I have three Otos, I don't know how much impact they have on the hair algae, I still have a small amount of it in my tank amongst the Java moss, but I probably don't have enough of them to clean it up totally. Also, I um, think I over feed my Otos, they prefer to eat shrimp pellets and flake off the bottom of the tank, but I must say, there isn't any algae on the tank walls, where the Otos spend most of their time.

Amano uses them in his planted tanks a lot for cleanup, too.

I don't have a problem on the walls - the bristles do that, but on the plants.

In fact the tortured vallisneria (spiral one) looks pretty "old" at present with "hairs" about 15cm long ...

So who will eat it please?

Have so far:

-fertilised the heck out of it

-at least 15 bristlebabies on the job

-made waterchanges to leach nutients

-but then thought fertiliser may be better...

so what shall i do - looks terrible at present.

How old/young is your tank?

How old/young is your tank?

About 3 months with fish in it.

Planted earlier.

Could be just a settling in thing, give it a bit of time to sort itself out.

Do you dose fertilizer, and what sort of lighting do you have?