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Cories will have to be fed and they also have greater bioload than shrimp, which can go mostly without being fed (maybe get some barley pellets as they don’t foul water) you could also get snails, I personally really like blue rams horns, they will only grow proportional to how much food is in...

The only way to get rid of the algal bloom is to use biological means. For example if you can introduce some molluscs like some of the Otocinclus species in the water then they rapidly multiply and will clear the bloom within a short periods with no secondary pollution. There are certain...

It sounds like a bacterial bloom. It should clear up in a couple of days. And oddly the large water change extends the time it takes if I remember the time it happened to one of my tanks. If the gap between the Mollies Platys and Tetras to the pea puffers was long enough and you weren't feeding...

Just some friendly advice about SAE's. If you get SAE make absolutely sure you get true Siamese algae eaters because you would not want false and definitely not those horrible Chinese algae eaters. Chinese algae eaters get big and they are MEAN and contrary to their name, they don't eat algae...