Here's more info on the cool fish sponge: ua-cam.com/video/9uGNV0DW0uA/v-deo.html This video covers a nice plastic razor blade: ua-cam.com/video/CWr5-jYPyfc/v-deo.html Check out our cool new merch here! www.primetimeaquatics.com/merch If you want more unique ideas check out my Instagram: @thesmallscape If you want to see some of my more traditional aquascapes check out Aquascapes by Joanna at Prime Time Aquatics: ua-cam.com/channels/YVN7EN0ALL6CE4U7NpMUTA.html
One thing I've done that helps is a utility cart on wheels. It has three tiers. I keep everything I need in reach and not constantly looking around to see where I left something.
What a quote “ …. This is not that video.” You’d better copyright that. I can see the items now (in best Spaceballs Yogurt voice) - “This is not that video,” The Shirt - “This is not that Channel,” The Mug - “This is not that Food,” The Lunchbox BTW, most unusual tip ever, I met a patient who uses her oxygen tank to run her sponge filter for prolonged blackouts. Yours in what’s unique, Jim
Oh my goodness!! That’s HUH-larious! Funniest comment ever. WE love that movie ! SO funny SO true - ask Jason how many times I say that! 😂😂 And that is also the most unusual tip I’VE ever heard too - most clever. May the Schwartz be with you!
I like to do a mini water change with a piece of air tube into my dollar store water can every couple days. Water some plants. Two birds one stone! BTW I am so lazy I bought two python so I wouldn’t have to drag one up from the basement to do water changes in the 4 tanks on the main floor!
There's just something that's so relaxing about maintaining little tanks! I'm like you I like that the supplies are smaller and that's a great tip to always keep them handy, especially in some kind of cute little container ♥️ After maintaining a big fish room, all those years ago, it was such a chore at times. But a little "Nano Nook" that I can piddle around in everyday, especially when all the plants get growing can be such a beautiful addition to your living space 😍 I find that I don't have to "get ready" to do maintenance , thinking about what I'm going to do first and then making the time to get the tasks done!! I like the fact that I could be sitting here and see something that needs to be done in them and just be able to jump up and do it. I love my shrimp net for catching debris and duckweed. Even water changes can take just a matter of minutes with the turkey baster or I can just dip out a little plastic cup or my paint pitcher(one of your great dollar store finds) Do a quick water change and I'm back to enjoying the day and chasing grandbabies 🤣🥰 Thanks Joanna for always hanging out with us and chatting about neat ways to enjoy our hobby!! Have a wonderful day my friend! 🙏🌿🐟🦐💚
Love having stuff when needed. Joanna needs a fisherman’s vest with many pockets. When I was a resident in a large NYC hospital, the residents would send a “scout” to each department to “obtain” “essentials.” Everyone would meet up to stuff the vests for the next ER shift. Would it not be good if Joanna’s household stuffed her go to item. What a nice early way to show thanks in Thanksgiving spirit. 😉
Always nice to hear about your fishkeeping ways, it’s great to follow along with your tanks and enjoyment of the hobby. The hobby is lucky to have you. Hope you have a lovely weekend! I think we’re set for some nice sunshine !🍁☀️ 🍁
The best way for removing duckweed I've found is getting a cup and lowering it into the tank upright, so it slurps the duckweed off the top. If the tank is small enough you're removing significant water volume this way, you can just pour the cup through a net and go again. Best part of this method is that it makes the duckweed go to the cup, vs you having to chase it around the tank!
@@briandotson8028 I've used a comb, for me the cup works better. Surface tension means the teeth of the comb sometimes push the water around which means I have to chase the duckweed around the tank. Forget that noise 😆 Dip the cup and the duckweed comes to you!
Joanna, I just love all the "TIPS" you offer for our tank upkeep!!! The wet and dry "make-up" remover pad is a really interesting tip! Thank you for encouraging us with easy, less expensive and ideal Tip tank maintenance!!! Truly Needed in our hobby!!!
I am not a fan of plastic sponges, for cleaning or filtering. Whenever I've used them for regular cleaning I've noticed that they keep leaving behind lots of microplastic. Not a fan of that, not in an aquarium, not elsewhere either. Microplastic sucks.
I need to just binge all your vids, you're officially my plant sensei! I wasn't sure if I should 'prune', as you say (Love that), my amazon frogbit or let it cover everything. I just cleared out maybe 50% of them in my first beginner tank and the rest of the tank has been looking great and growing fast since then. And I've already had maybe a quarter re-grow. My new gourami centerpiece fish has been nibbling the long roots too, which is great. I used to only take out the melting and yellow ones but I think I can be a LOT more judicious with them now! Between that last experience on my own and now watching this. I left my shrimp tank's amazon Frogbit tendrils get so long that, when I cleaned them up yesterday, about 4 of them had taken root in my substrate in a 5.5 gal! I'm almost curious what they'd do next after that, but it's too messy for the shrimp to swim on half the tank so I just trimmed it all and will continue to do so. Hoping that the frogbit regrowing after a trim will also help to out-compete the minor hair algae issue in there. Anyway, awesome video!
I keep towel racks in my fish room so I can wipe tanks down after working on them. The only surface floating plant I let grow in my tanks are Frog Bit. No duckweed period. That is always a fight, but every little bit goes into the freezer and I use it for making shrimp food. Those are two things I do on top of your list. Thank you!
Love your videos 👍👍 please continue to level with us also lazy people 😜 🙂 have a great day. So what do you do with all your excess floating plants?? I feed mine to my koi in my pond.. the eat all the duck weed and frogbit I give them even in winter through a small hole I keep up with an air stone. Some times that even freezes but they still get air exchange because it makes a giant air bubble under the ice, but eventually the air stone opens the hole back up.
I LOVE microfiber cloths made for cleaning cars. They absorb so much water when you're cleaning tanks. I literally have one in my hand or on my shoulder the entire time I'm cleaning my tanks. They are my go to tank towels! I just toss them in the wash with a little bit of vinegar.
The best thing I've ever found to clean aquarium glass is the magic erasers(melamine sponges). I get packs from Amazon and cut them down. They even take off the dreaded green spot algae, so no blade required. I like that they actually absorb any algae that you're taking off the glass so any dust algae that's on their stays in the sponge.
@@thesmallscape It could be the flow. I tried red root in my goldfish tank that has two filters and an airstone. I transferred it to another tank that has higher quality led lights, but that has high flow in it too. It's almost completely gone. I'm trying Amazon frogbit in the goldfish tank, but it isn't propagating at all.
Ok...here's one I use. Denture brush..yup...you heard right. I had one to clean my mouth guard and thought hmmm this would be great to clean rocks..tada 🤣🤣
👋 found you via your husband... you're my style 🤗 and doing nano 🥰 I have a 120 year old house and that means cottage-y. 😁 This is a great video, right on time 👍
My nano tanks tend to be set up in places I'm frequently next to or in. The end stand next to the couch on the end I sit on, the kitchen counter, the bar divinding the kitchen from the living room, and yes one in the bathroom. So I see all of them several times a day and night and when I see something that is off or bothers me like a single piece of moss that's too long I just reach in and pluck it off. New plant floated up, reach in replant and put a few pebbles around it. Too many ramshorns, save the prettiest, put the rest in the assassin snail tank. Roots need trimmed, get the scissors out of the drawer under the living room tank, Snip Snip, done. I really like my nano tanks and where they're set up. I enjoy them so much more because I'm always seeing them and seeing what's going on in them. I am still in awe and in love with your little paint bucket trick. It's a game changer. Love all the things you share with us that make fish life so much easier. 👍❤👍
Hi Joanna, thank you for your tips. I have a few clithon bumblebee snails in my nano aquarium. Excellent at algae eating and eating and excess food if you don't have corydoras. Also they don't breed in freshwater and over populate. Have a great day ☺️
Hopefully the Professor showed you the Killi fish tank I’m setting up with a lot of Farmer Jo’s trick! You know when I was a little kid we were so poor that on my 6th birthday,my mom put three candles on my cake and stuck it in front of the mirror!
I haven't had this problem, but I'd just throw it out, personally. If it's salvinia minima (which is incredibly common) should be easy to just find a fresh culture. Leaving any mold behind will just allow mold to spread.
The thing that must be kept easily accessible near my tanks is my long handled tweezers. For replanting uprooted plants, yes. But also for plucking out dead leaves. And for tong feeding individual blood worms or brine shrimp to my bettas, or grabbing larger clumps to feed a tank of hungry guppies. For flipping over nerites that have fallen off the glass and landed on their back. For (carefully) holding epiphyte plants in place against a rock while superglue sets. Etc etc etc. If I'm going into the tank, chances are my tweezers are involved!
Little wicker 4”x6” linen-lined baskets from Target, $6 each. Keep my dry items (or wiped dry) stored perfectly on the open shelved stand under my nano tank. Easy access to food, little trimmers and tweezers, conditioners, etc. Beware if you do have nosey pets likes dogs and cats because these baskets don’t have lids! 😃 Good vid!
Great tips Joanna. I have 16 Nano tanks. I’m constantly watching the filters and any algae that builds up. I check for evaporation but I do water changes twice a week. I keep the water conditioner right out in front to make sure I don’t forget to add it to the water. I use water gallon plastic jugs. I keep several handy. The toothbrushes are great to clean off the algae and reach in to the Nano hang on back filters of any gunk that builds up in there. Thank you for your great tips.
Speaking of floating plants, I kind of want to get some for my 5g shrimp tank (it would be cute to see the shrimp hanging out in the roots); but I don't want the entire surface covered in them. Any ideas of a device to wrangle the floaters to one area of the tank?
I use a diy floating feeder ring i made from 1/2 inch black pond tubing to keep the floating plants where I want them. Inside ring in some tanks, outside in others. Works great for me!
Air line tubing attached to the side of the tank with one of the suction cups made for them. Can use an airline connector or glue/melt it to form a ring.
When I 1st got my Blue Diamond shrimp, they were so tiny, that's what they did 4 a couple weeks & I would have to b so careful when scooping out the tiny Duckweed. I had 1 that actually jumped. Thankfully I found it & put it right back in the tank & it was alright. Now they r all over the tank. My Mystery snail does a pretty good job @ keeping the Duckweed pop down. But now, I'm thinking of getting a some horned Nerites snails, b/c I learned they r better @ algae control.
Here's more info on the cool fish sponge: ua-cam.com/video/9uGNV0DW0uA/v-deo.html
This video covers a nice plastic razor blade: ua-cam.com/video/CWr5-jYPyfc/v-deo.html
Check out our cool new merch here! www.primetimeaquatics.com/merch
If you want more unique ideas check out my Instagram: @thesmallscape
If you want to see some of my more traditional aquascapes check out
Aquascapes by Joanna at Prime Time Aquatics: ua-cam.com/channels/YVN7EN0ALL6CE4U7NpMUTA.html
One thing I've done that helps is a utility cart on wheels. It has three tiers. I keep everything I need in reach and not constantly looking around to see where I left something.
Omg I have the same by my nook but it is so poorly organized. I really need to have some sort of method on that thing. 🙌
What a quote “ …. This is not that video.” You’d better copyright that.
I can see the items now (in best Spaceballs Yogurt voice)
- “This is not that video,” The Shirt
- “This is not that Channel,” The Mug
- “This is not that Food,” The Lunchbox
BTW, most unusual tip ever, I met a patient who uses her oxygen tank to run her sponge filter for prolonged blackouts.
Yours in what’s unique,
Jim
Oh my goodness!! That’s HUH-larious! Funniest comment ever. WE love that movie ! SO funny SO true - ask Jason how many times I say that! 😂😂 And that is also the most unusual tip I’VE ever heard too - most clever.
May the Schwartz be with you!
I like to do a mini water change with a piece of air tube into my dollar store water can every couple days. Water some plants. Two birds one stone! BTW I am so lazy I bought two python so I wouldn’t have to drag one up from the basement to do water changes in the 4 tanks on the main floor!
🙌🙌🙌 - that’s 3 ‘woops!’ For you, Wendi! Love all your ways and I too MUST have hoses by every tank squadron. 😃
Joanna you’re looking a lot better today, hope you’re over the crud. I’m still going to look for those plastic razor blades at some point
Hi Chris - oh yes- feeling much better lately. Wishing u luck trying out the plastic razor blades! ☺️
thanks for the tips, really helpful. 🥰
Hi there!! Thanks for stopping by ☺️
Great tips, especially since I am currently preparing to set up my 3rd nano tank! Thanks!
Woohoo - have fun, Carole! 🙌🙌🙌
A little basket with a handle to carry from tank to tank is good for supplies and food if your tanks aren’t all together.
Lazy or time efficient?? 😉
Both! Lol! 😆 Love it, Amanda, or should I say little red riding hood 😂👏 🧺
There's just something that's so relaxing about maintaining little tanks! I'm like you I like that the supplies are smaller and that's a great tip to always keep them handy, especially in some kind of cute little container ♥️
After maintaining a big fish room, all those years ago, it was such a chore at times. But a little "Nano Nook" that I can piddle around in everyday, especially when all the plants get growing can be such a beautiful addition to your living space 😍
I find that I don't have to "get ready" to do maintenance , thinking about what I'm going to do first and then making the time to get the tasks done!!
I like the fact that I could be sitting here and see something that needs to be done in them and just be able to jump up and do it. I love my shrimp net for catching debris and duckweed. Even water changes can take just a matter of minutes with the turkey baster or I can just dip out a little plastic cup or my paint pitcher(one of your great dollar store finds)
Do a quick water change and I'm back to enjoying the day and chasing grandbabies 🤣🥰
Thanks Joanna for always hanging out with us and chatting about neat ways to enjoy our hobby!! Have a wonderful day my friend! 🙏🌿🐟🦐💚
Love having stuff when needed. Joanna needs a fisherman’s vest with many pockets.
When I was a resident in a large NYC hospital, the residents would send a “scout” to each department to “obtain” “essentials.” Everyone would meet up to stuff the vests for the next ER shift.
Would it not be good if Joanna’s household stuffed her go to item. What a nice early way to show thanks in Thanksgiving spirit. 😉
Always nice to hear about your fishkeeping ways, it’s great to follow along with your tanks and enjoyment of the hobby. The hobby is lucky to have you. Hope you have a lovely weekend! I think we’re set for some nice sunshine !🍁☀️ 🍁
@@thesmallscape oh my goodness Joanna the hobby is so lucky to have you 🙏❤️ thank you to you and Jason for all you do to help us along the way 🙏🥰🌿🐟🐟
The best way for removing duckweed I've found is getting a cup and lowering it into the tank upright, so it slurps the duckweed off the top. If the tank is small enough you're removing significant water volume this way, you can just pour the cup through a net and go again. Best part of this method is that it makes the duckweed go to the cup, vs you having to chase it around the tank!
Dangggggg!! I’m going to try this method, Joe! Thank you (in advance!) 😃🌱
The best way to remove duckweek is using a comb.
@@briandotson8028 I've used a comb, for me the cup works better. Surface tension means the teeth of the comb sometimes push the water around which means I have to chase the duckweed around the tank. Forget that noise 😆 Dip the cup and the duckweed comes to you!
Sounds like a big ladle would work well for this technique
I used a plastic fork. The cup sounds like a good tip, too.
Joanna,
I just love all the "TIPS" you offer for our tank upkeep!!!
The wet and dry "make-up" remover pad is a really interesting tip!
Thank you for encouraging us with easy, less expensive and ideal Tip tank maintenance!!! Truly Needed in our hobby!!!
Thanks, Eduardo - that’s sooooo nice to hear! ☺️☺️☺️
I am not a fan of plastic sponges, for cleaning or filtering. Whenever I've used them for regular cleaning I've noticed that they keep leaving behind lots of microplastic. Not a fan of that, not in an aquarium, not elsewhere either. Microplastic sucks.
I need to just binge all your vids, you're officially my plant sensei! I wasn't sure if I should 'prune', as you say (Love that), my amazon frogbit or let it cover everything. I just cleared out maybe 50% of them in my first beginner tank and the rest of the tank has been looking great and growing fast since then. And I've already had maybe a quarter re-grow. My new gourami centerpiece fish has been nibbling the long roots too, which is great. I used to only take out the melting and yellow ones but I think I can be a LOT more judicious with them now! Between that last experience on my own and now watching this.
I left my shrimp tank's amazon Frogbit tendrils get so long that, when I cleaned them up yesterday, about 4 of them had taken root in my substrate in a 5.5 gal! I'm almost curious what they'd do next after that, but it's too messy for the shrimp to swim on half the tank so I just trimmed it all and will continue to do so. Hoping that the frogbit regrowing after a trim will also help to out-compete the minor hair algae issue in there.
Anyway, awesome video!
I keep towel racks in my fish room so I can wipe tanks down after working on them. The only surface floating plant I let grow in my tanks are Frog Bit. No duckweed period. That is always a fight, but every little bit goes into the freezer and I use it for making shrimp food. Those are two things I do on top of your list. Thank you!
Love your videos 👍👍 please continue to level with us also lazy people 😜 🙂 have a great day.
So what do you do with all your excess floating plants?? I feed mine to my koi in my pond.. the eat all the duck weed and frogbit I give them even in winter through a small hole I keep up with an air stone. Some times that even freezes but they still get air exchange because it makes a giant air bubble under the ice, but eventually the air stone opens the hole back up.
I LOVE microfiber cloths made for cleaning cars. They absorb so much water when you're cleaning tanks. I literally have one in my hand or on my shoulder the entire time I'm cleaning my tanks. They are my go to tank towels! I just toss them in the wash with a little bit of vinegar.
The best thing I've ever found to clean aquarium glass is the magic erasers(melamine sponges). I get packs from Amazon and cut them down. They even take off the dreaded green spot algae, so no blade required. I like that they actually absorb any algae that you're taking off the glass so any dust algae that's on their stays in the sponge.
Good Morning.
If you haven't already, I need a video on floating plants. So far I'm failing!! 😔
Hi Eden - well then here you go! Good luck with them, maybe the flow is too high? 🤷🏻♀️ ua-cam.com/video/VNdnXrcAZcQ/v-deo.html
@@thesmallscape It could be the flow. I tried red root in my goldfish tank that has two filters and an airstone. I transferred it to another tank that has higher quality led lights, but that has high flow in it too. It's almost completely gone. I'm trying Amazon frogbit in the goldfish tank, but it isn't propagating at all.
I got a carpet of green algea on my driftwood looks nice but its kind of taking over.
You can trim it back and keep it. Algae scapes are becoming more popular these days.
It can certainly look quite nice if maintained- kinda fun to see it pop up and naturalize in spots 🌱☺️
shrimp will take care of that
Ok...here's one I use. Denture brush..yup...you heard right. I had one to clean my mouth guard and thought hmmm this would be great to clean rocks..tada 🤣🤣
No kidding! I will look into that for sure! 😆
👋 found you via your husband... you're my style 🤗 and doing nano 🥰 I have a 120 year old house and that means cottage-y. 😁 This is a great video, right on time 👍
So glad ! An old cottagestyle house - sounds amazing and perfect atmosphere for wee tank(s)! ☺️
Happy fun filled Wednesday, excellent more super useful tips 🤗 Will there be a Halloween themed video🎃 👻 🧙🏻♀️
Hi there! Oh geez, I have nearly completely missed the season. I will need to think of something though, won’t i. 🍁😃🍁
people: duckweed going crazy in their tanks, hated them and want to get rid of them
me: （duckweed dying but everything else is going fantastic）huh🤨
Lol! Wow! Amazing “problem” you have! 🙌🙌🙌😂
Thanks for the great tips👍🏽✌🏽
another great video
☺️!
" Reduce the general population " I've heard that somewhere before?... Great tips!
Nice! Catchy! ☺️
@@thesmallscape Out West, they used to call this “culling the herd.” I guess one could fugitively cull the floating foliage. 😉
@@jamesgreen9372, Lol
@@thesmallscape,😀
Really nice video, and tips. The makeup remover sponge thing would be great for getting algae off of spider wood.
Oh ya!! You’re right!
Spot cleaning with a turkey baster helps keep the waste and bio load down! So when you're doing water changes it doesn't take so long :)
You got it! ☺️
My nano tanks tend to be set up in places I'm frequently next to or in. The end stand next to the couch on the end I sit on, the kitchen counter, the bar divinding the kitchen from the living room, and yes one in the bathroom. So I see all of them several times a day and night and when I see something that is off or bothers me like a single piece of moss that's too long I just reach in and pluck it off. New plant floated up, reach in replant and put a few pebbles around it. Too many ramshorns, save the prettiest, put the rest in the assassin snail tank. Roots need trimmed, get the scissors out of the drawer under the living room tank, Snip Snip, done.
I really like my nano tanks and where they're set up. I enjoy them so much more because I'm always seeing them and seeing what's going on in them. I am still in awe and in love with your little paint bucket trick. It's a game changer. Love all the things you share with us that make fish life so much easier.
👍❤👍
I love it - you can totally tell you love your fishies and your tanks and the hobby. You are an inspiration! ✨☺️👏
Hi Joanna, thank you for your tips.
I have a few clithon bumblebee snails in my nano aquarium.
Excellent at algae eating and eating and excess food if you don't have corydoras.
Also they don't breed in freshwater and over populate.
Have a great day ☺️
Oooh - I am going to check them out 🐝! I’ve been pondering setting up a wee tank for a couple nerites ... ☺️
Great tips! I learn such cool 😎 stuff from you, Joanna.
Thank you, Gina! ☺️
Great info.
Great tips
💚💚💚💚
I agree-proximity is key! I have a knock off brand mag-float glass cleaner that helps to make easy work of quickly cleaning the glass.
Nice! I know a lot of folks really like them! ☺️
Hopefully the Professor showed you the Killi fish tank I’m setting up with a lot of Farmer Jo’s trick! You know when I was a little kid we were so poor that on my 6th birthday,my mom put three candles on my cake and stuck it in front of the mirror!
Hi John! No - that man has not shown it to me but I will make sure he does. I miss my killies ☺️
Hey! Great tips
☺️!
Great video also Do you have any solutions to mouldy salvinia
I haven't had this problem, but I'd just throw it out, personally. If it's salvinia minima (which is incredibly common) should be easy to just find a fresh culture. Leaving any mold behind will just allow mold to spread.
Good idea I have salvinia natans
The thing that must be kept easily accessible near my tanks is my long handled tweezers. For replanting uprooted plants, yes. But also for plucking out dead leaves. And for tong feeding individual blood worms or brine shrimp to my bettas, or grabbing larger clumps to feed a tank of hungry guppies. For flipping over nerites that have fallen off the glass and landed on their back. For (carefully) holding epiphyte plants in place against a rock while superglue sets. Etc etc etc. If I'm going into the tank, chances are my tweezers are involved!
It’s a must have! ☺️
Little wicker 4”x6” linen-lined baskets from Target, $6 each. Keep my dry items (or wiped dry) stored perfectly on the open shelved stand under my nano tank. Easy access to food, little trimmers and tweezers, conditioners, etc. Beware if you do have nosey pets likes dogs and cats because these baskets don’t have lids! 😃 Good vid!
Love it - and I love wicker baskets 🧺 pretty much anywhere! Who said storage has to be boring, unsightly or it won’t match your “vibe”! 👏👏 bravo!
Great tips Joanna. I have 16 Nano tanks. I’m constantly watching the filters and any algae that builds up. I check for evaporation but I do water changes twice a week. I keep the water conditioner right out in front to make sure I don’t forget to add it to the water. I use water gallon plastic jugs. I keep several handy. The toothbrushes are great to clean off the algae and reach in to the Nano hang on back filters of any gunk that builds up in there. Thank you for your great tips.
Nice - I bet your tanks look amazing! I love the idea of water jugs - so handy!
Great tips! I will look for a way to keep some supplies handy. For some reason I never considered cleaning more than once a week and I love the idea
Oh yay! Hope you find it helpful ☺️
I like to use an old card to scrape my glass. I scrape front and sides and leave the back with algae for the pleco and shrimp 😁
That’s a great trick - the one time I tried it I unfortunately had grabbed one that turned out to be paper. 😐😆
@@thesmallscape 🤣we all have our moments
Speaking of floating plants, I kind of want to get some for my 5g shrimp tank (it would be cute to see the shrimp hanging out in the roots); but I don't want the entire surface covered in them. Any ideas of a device to wrangle the floaters to one area of the tank?
I use a diy floating feeder ring i made from 1/2 inch black pond tubing to keep the floating plants where I want them. Inside ring in some tanks, outside in others. Works great for me!
Air line tubing attached to the side of the tank with one of the suction cups made for them. Can use an airline connector or glue/melt it to form a ring.
When I 1st got my Blue Diamond shrimp, they were so tiny, that's what they did 4 a couple weeks & I would have to b so careful when scooping out the tiny Duckweed. I had 1 that actually jumped. Thankfully I found it & put it right back in the tank & it was alright. Now they r all over the tank. My Mystery snail does a pretty good job @ keeping the Duckweed pop down. But now, I'm thinking of getting a some horned Nerites snails, b/c I learned they r better @ algae control.