Otoclinus Affinis

[Incredulous_Ed]

In your experienece, do otoclinus' do a good job of cleaning up algae?

[CAF]

pound for pound they are the best algae eating fish on the planet!

IMHO of course.....

[~Erik3.8.07~]

i used to have 1 in my 10g and he did an awesome job of cleaning the algea

[Incredulous_Ed]

all right then, I guess i'll get a few. Thanks guys.

[Nikita706]

I think we're getting one tonight as well. They came highly recommended.

[Mark Lathrop]

I took my suction cup thermometor off for about 10 minutes once and there was algae growing where the suction cup made contact with the glass. Before I got the thermometer back to the tank, the Oto had already eaten all of the algae. They're active little buggers.

[Rue]

Yes! They're the best! But they're finnicky to keep alive, make sure you feed daily once your tank is cleaned up...

They are also a schooling fish...only's are known to die quickly...get 4-6 min.

[cocoa_pleco]

dunno why, but when i had a 15g up i added 3 and they didnt eat any of the algae on the tank. i stopped buying them

[Oto]

As you can probably tell, they are my favorite fish, by far. I had 2 of them in my 20gallon, and they disappeared. I have to go and get 3 more soon. They are great and fun to watch for kids.
Pros:
- Fast
- Active
- Rarely Hide in cave
- Clean a whole tank in 24 hours
- Economical
Cons:
- Small hard to see
- Sometimes die for no reason

[zackish]

IMO, NO, however, it depends what kind of algae you are talking about. I know they don't eat BBA which takes over some of my plants in my tank right now.
However, I thought they were suppose to eat regular green algae but I have green algae covering my driftwood right now. Maybe time for a clown pleco or something.

[Incredulous_Ed]

I have green and bron algae. It stopped growing, but I'm way too lazy to wipe it off. So that's why I want an oto.

Back when my tank was just starting out, I had the brown algae, and I got a pleco, and man, that thing did a great job with the algae. And with the plants, lol

[SkarloeysMom]

Yes! They're the best! But they're finnicky to keep alive, make sure you feed daily once your tank is cleaned up...

They are also a schooling fish...only's are known to die quickly...get 4-6 min.

They are great! I totally agree they are finnicky to keep alive. I've also found that they don't eat all kinds of algae or maybe MINE just don't eat all kinds. I have only one left in my 20g and he seems happy on his own. I'll probably try to get him some mates soon its just hard to find healthy ones.