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So I've got a blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) outbreak in my 33-gallon southeast asian river tank. All that tank has for algae eaters is nerites (I'd love hillstream loaches, but those seem to be hard to come by atm), which of course don't touch the stuff. My understanding from internet research is that basically nothing eats blue-green algae, and your only solutions are chemical treatment, manual removal, and blackouts. I've been working with the latter two for a few weeks, and it is a slog. I recently moved one of my crypts from the tank to a 5-gallon shrimp/snail tank that needed more plants. That crypt was absolutely beset by blue-green algae, so I figured at best the huge number of shrimp and snails in the 5g would clean it, and at worst they wouldn't, and it would die there instead of in the 33-gallon. Lo and behold, a day after adding it to the 5-gallon, it's totally clean! The shrimp were ALL OVER it.
This is weird, right? Should I be concerned for the digestive health of my shrimp?
And since it *did* happen.... what are the odds other shrimp would do the same? I don't think I can add neocaridina to the 33-gallon; I think the danios in there would bully them to no end, and it's a relatively high-flow tank (~200 gph with a river manifold and spraybar). But amanos, maybe....
This is weird, right? Should I be concerned for the digestive health of my shrimp?
And since it *did* happen.... what are the odds other shrimp would do the same? I don't think I can add neocaridina to the 33-gallon; I think the danios in there would bully them to no end, and it's a relatively high-flow tank (~200 gph with a river manifold and spraybar). But amanos, maybe....