suggestions on a cleaning crew

[bigbad-ratman]

so my 45 gal goldfish is starting to be overrun by algae...and i am a tad lazy. i some cleaning in there, but would like some help. so question is: how many mystery snails could i put in there to help keep the algae down and add a little variety to my tank? was thinking about three, but how many would be too many in the long run once they eat all/most of the algae? i am not expecting them to keep it spotless, but not having to scrub EVERYTHING would be nice. thanks in advance for your help?

[smaug]

Get japanese trapdoors,they breed slowly and are very good algae eaters.Get 3-5 of them.

[HeatherB]

I have gold mystery snails. That was all I could find here, except for Nerite snails. They do great work! My betta tank was overrun, I dropped four in and by the next morning my tank was clean! (I then separated them amoung my other tanks. I have 2 in the betta tank (one for each side), one at work and one in the guppy/guarami/tetra tank.

[Lab_Rat]

Just keep an eye on the snails to make sure your goldy isn't trying to eat their little antenna off.