I’m looking for something to act as a clean up crew for the water portion of the tank. I have green algae growing on the background of the tank and brown algae in the water. After doing some research I’m seeing a lot of different options (daphnia, copepods, scuds, snails) but I don’t have experience with any of them. I don’t think there is enough water for shrimp or anything larger. The tank currently only has spring tails and pill bugs so I don’t want something that would easily take over if nothing is eating it (or if it does what should I add to prevent that?). I also don’t want anything that will kill the live plants in there. But yeah just looking for some advice on managing the algae that isn’t constantly cleaning the tank. Thank you guys!!
by rawrbitchess
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Any shrimp will feast on algae, i got 7 of them in my 4 gal tank previous week and i am already noticing a difference.
Any neocaridina shrimp will also lay offspring easily while caridina usually don’t if im not mistaken.
Depending on if this has inhabitants yet or not – vampire crabs would do so well in here
Snails? Maybe some small snails like ramshorn or bladder snails?