Sitemaps

What should I do At my school, they have a saltwater tank in the lobby, and it is COVERED in algae2007-11-24 23:42:14

I feel bad that those poor poor fish have to live in there!

I feel like I should help. Does anyone know where you can get a couple of saltwater catfish? If so, what do they cost?

Answers:

Maybe visit a pet shop and ask if they have any inexpensive suggestions for removing algae from an aquarium.

With freshwater tanks, there are certain fish that feed on the algae, but not sure which (if any) would work for a salt water tank.

Perhaps there are algae tabs or an algae scraper that would work. You might even get a pet store to provide a solution at no cost in exchange for a little free advertising on the aquarium itself, for example, a small sign near the bottom of the tank which reads:

"This tank is maintained by Buffy's Fish Shop, visit them at.."

or

"Algae Eating fish provided by Fish By Jim.."

---

They need snails in the tank or starfish or urchins.

or they should hire someone to clean it. some petshops offer maintance for tanks

---

Here is a much easier route:

Complain to the people in the front office! Let them know how disgusting it looks!

Best of luck!

---

offer to clean the tank for them

---

i dont know how much they cost but i saw some in one of the stores in branson

---

Tell a teacher or some one at your shool about it so they can call some one to come clean the tank. But I don't know of a saltwater catfish, but if there is the North Dallas Aquarium can help you there.

Good Luck!

---

fisrt add about two or three snails depending on the size of the tank and what i usually do is take a raser blade and scrape the algae off of the sides.the water eill be green 4 a min but the filter will cathc the float ing algae

---

Is algae on all sides of tank? Algae is okay in saltwater tank and I usually clean only front and sides of my tank.You can tell someone at the school that a magnetic cleaner is easy to use and is cheap at Wal-mart.