mcrudd Posted December 16, 2011 Report Share Posted December 16, 2011 Hi all, I have a small little 20 litre blue planet tank with two pufferfish in it, although they look cute those little guys are vicious Nothing but the two of them survive it in there overnight. I have tried snails and ottos, they just dissapear whole overnight. Now my problem is algae, I have tried having my tank planted, since that helped for the bigger tank, but although its almost completely overgrown in there algae still thrives as well. Does anyone have any idea how I can keep algae to a minimum without having to use the algae scraper every single day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squirt Posted December 16, 2011 Report Share Posted December 16, 2011 If your getting algae it's due to an imbalance of nutrients, light and CO2. What kind of algae is it? Also, I've heard that ottos are wild caught, so they use a chemical to catch them, temporally stunning them. This may be why your ottos are dying. Or due to having a small tank, the puffers are more territorial, killing the ottos? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcrudd Posted December 16, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 16, 2011 Green algae. I have limited sunlight by moving the tank, which helped a little, but it is still coming, on the glass its slimy green and on the plants its stringy slimy dark green algae. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophia Posted December 16, 2011 Report Share Posted December 16, 2011 does it have a light, and if so how long is it on for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrienne Posted December 16, 2011 Report Share Posted December 16, 2011 No fish will survive in a tank with puffers. Puffers seem to become very hungry during the night and any sleeping fish is a great meal!! Is the algae you have a slimy blue/green colour that is in fine layers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Li@m Posted December 16, 2011 Report Share Posted December 16, 2011 Sonds like you have GDA - Green Dust Algae. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcrudd Posted December 17, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 17, 2011 Sophia my light is on from about 8am to 7pm sometimes I will switch it off a bit earlier, depending on what time I feed my fishies. Adrienne its amazing they have not eaten each other yet, I take it down to one being male and the other female. But anything that goes in there never last overnight. I thought of putting something bigger in, but those little buggers will just eat it bit by bit and the poor thing will suffer My algae starts out green spots against the glass but if left a bit longer they go stringy, no blue, deffinetly bright green and a darker green for the ones in the plants, I will take a pic tomorrow, I already scraped the glass with the magnet cleaner, and my silly female puffer chased it around while I did it :sml2: Liam I think you might be right, I google imaged it and it looks just like that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophia Posted December 17, 2011 Report Share Posted December 17, 2011 If I were you I'd just cut down the lighting so it comes on later in the day, 5 or 6 hours. That should help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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