Here's another benefit of having scuds in a tank: they eat algae.
I had a 70 gallon tank that would get outbreaks of black brush algae, and I could not eradicate the algae. I tried treating the tank with a heavy dose of hydrogen peroxide and Flourish Excel (after removing all the fish), but the BBA always came back.
This spring, I removed almost all the fish, leaving only a group of corydoras. I added scuds to the tank with each water change and also added some hornwort to the tank, because scuds seem to really like to eat hornwort.
It took a while for the scuds to be established in this tank, for reasons that are unclear to me, but now they are doing well and the BBA is gone, except for a little bit still on a filter spray bar. I'm going to remove the spray bar and treat it with hydrogen peroxide, to try to knock out the last little bit of BBA.
Here's another benefit of having scuds in a tank: they eat algae.
I had a 70 gallon tank that would get outbreaks of black brush algae, and I could not eradicate the algae. I tried treating the tank with a heavy dose of hydrogen peroxide and Flourish Excel (after removing all the fish), but the BBA always came back.
This spring, I removed almost all the fish, leaving only a group of corydoras. I added scuds to the tank with each water change and also added some hornwort to the tank, because scuds seem to really like to eat hornwort.
It took a while for the scuds to be established in this tank, for reasons that are unclear to me, but now they are doing well and the BBA is gone, except for a little bit still on a filter spray bar. I'm going to remove the spray bar and treat it with hydrogen peroxide, to try to knock out the last little bit of BBA.