Cleaner Shrimp

[mashadar]

I was just browsing this website ( I don't have a fish tank yet), but wouldn't a cleaner shrimp help control the algae - or would it not because it's on the bottom of the tank?

 

[yae4volcom]

I am pretty sure cleaner shrimp do not help control algae. Snails and crabs do.

 

[ivanfj]

Cleaner shrimps would not clean up the algae that is already in existance, but they will pick up all the left-over food on the sandbed and rocks to prevent nitrate/phosphate build up, resulting in out-of-control algae.

 

[mjsdas]

Originally posted by ivanfj
Cleaner shrimps would not clean up the algae that is already in existance, but they will pick up all the left-over food on the sandbed and rocks to prevent nitrate/phosphate build up, resulting in out-of-control algae.
couldnt have said it better myself, if you've got algea get an emerald crab or some hermits