...I think better come back to Soyadude's thread about whether rosy barb eat algae or not.....haha..

In my opinion...i think having all this algae eating fish or shrimps is good for a planted tank but somehow we also must consider of looking at other more important factors....i mean prevention is better than cure....so maybe we should consider studying the prevention part i.e. looking at water parameter, lighting aspect, dosing of fertiliser.....feeding of fishes etc....

This comes across my mind becoz some time ago i called YT to ask whether he has any Oto in his shop....before he answer me...he was asking abt my tank condition...so told him this n that.....then he ask me to re-analyse the tank condition and slowly identify the causes for such an algae outbreak....it is normal to have algae in tank but an outbreak of it usually indicate one or few factors is out ald....ummm very make sense to me and somehow his words refresh my mind and i do go back and slowly study it.......no doubt i still waiting for his stock to come in as i want to hv some otos for minor problem solving and conditioning of the tank.....

At times, when algae outbreak liao...what matters is we only want to solve it by all means....so we heard or read in forum....SAE boleh ! , CAe boleh ! Yamato boleh ! Oto boleh ! ....so we ma quickly want to get it....but then same problem exist...ummm then we are on the look out for newer species of alage eater...hahaha... what we forgotten is ummm the root or cause of the problem....we forgot to check on this and only want to solve the problem on the surface ...hahah so what i want to share here is...at times it is good and really grateful to have many experience forum members who willingly share their experience and at times their words really make u think .... AHa!! why was i didnt check on this or why i didnt think of it in the first place....hahah

So thanks to all members who spent time to read this long posting...hahaha