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- From: steveb@tivoli.UUCP (Steve Benz)
- Newsgroups: rec.aquaria
- Subject: Re: Goldfish
- Message-ID: <7161@tivoli.UUCP>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 00:21:40 GMT
- References: <92351.004725APARKER@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> <liuplvINN5k1@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <92351.234548APARKER@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
- Reply-To: steveb@tivoli.UUCP (Steve Benz)
- Organization: Tivoli Systems Inc., Austin, TX
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- In article <92351.234548APARKER@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> APARKER@MAINE.MAINE.EDU writes:
- > The only
- >fish that _really thoroughly_ keep tanks algae-free are Lorcarid cat-
- >fishes (plecos).
-
- I managed to develop a strain of algae that my Pleco wouldn't touch.
- A very low-growing sort of thing that made green snowflakes all over
- the glass. I still haven't figured out how to handle that stuff with
- anything other than a razor blade. [[ I don't hate it enough to use
- chemicals on it yet... ]]
-
- My current hopes are pinned on my new lighting system causing my plants
- to grow well enough to choke it out, and/or finding a Borneo Sucker,
- which, I'm told, just love to lick stuff off of glass. Also tempting
- is to buy a snail or two, but I have an orange-finned loach that would
- probably get it.
-
- [[ Actually, I only think I have an orange-finned loach. The critter
- goes into seclusion during the day. I see him about once a week.
- I have no idea what that fish feeds on. ]]
-
- - Steve
-