Chad Vossen
New member
FINALLY. i cant believe it took so long for you to buy one!
clam - sure, you could have kept it in a small tank with that kind of lighting maybe, BUT what your not thinking about is that it will not consume the algae faster than it can grow. not possible. also your forgetting the calcium requirement, clams are calcium sponges!
brine shrimp - hahaha. first of all, your filter is killing the brine shrimp within 24 hours of them hatching. second, they also can not keep up with the growth rate of phytoplankton, reguardless of how many brine shrimp are in the tank. i used to co-culture brine shrimp in my phytoplankton bottles, never affected phytoplankton growth, if not improved it.
rotifers - yeah, these can easily eat the phytoplankton faster than it can grow, but only because the rotifers reproduce crazy fast. however what your not realizing is that again, your filter is removing them from the water.
in the end, to resolve your phytoplankton issue, you have probably spent more than 40$ on a clam, brine shrimp, and the rotifers. yet complaining in one of your post that a uv sterilizer is to expensive. finally you bought one from petsmart, which brings your total above 80$ possibly, which could have been spent on a sweet H.O.T. magnum diatom filter that would have cleared that water within 10 minutes.
