Wednesday 9 April 2008

Wonderful Cleaners!

I moved an ornament between tanks last night to see what would happen. It was a bright orange starfish that had been added to the goldfish tank some years ago - the sort of thing that's absolutely banned from the tropical tank.

But it was so covered in algae that I thought moving it for 24 hours might be a treat for the inhabitants of the tropical tank, so after a quick rinse it was moved. Today it was popular with some of the snails and later the Bristlenose catfish. So tonight I removed it, gave it a quick rinse and replaced an amazingly clean starfish into the goldfish tank.

With that team growing bigger, hopefully the tropical tank will never have algas. I just wonder if I could put some small snails into the goldfisg tank?

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