Besides adding a types of algae eater fish into the live plants aquarium as the "natural algae removal" such as Chinese Algae Eater fish (Gyrinocheilus aymonieri) which is very effective to cleaning Diatom Brown algae and types of Green algae which new growth, you can also try Siamensis Algae Eaters to prevent the growth of Green Bunch Algae or Pelt Algae in your aquarium aquascaping.

Crossocheilus siamensis which also called "Siamensis Algae Eaters (SAE)" native to Kalimantan and Sumatra Islands. Although the color of its body was not spectacular, but these algae-eating fish almost found in many aquarium aquascaping because they was an avid algae eater fish.


The Siamese algae eater (Epalzeorhynchos siamensis or Crossocheilus siamensis) have a black horizontal stripe extending from opercle to tail. The genuine Epalzeorhynchos siamensis or Crossocheilus siamensis without maxillary barbels and with deeply fringed V-shaped upper lip is rarely encountered in the aquarium trade.

Siamensis Algae Eaters (SAE) closely related to the Red Algae eater Crossocheilus langei, a species that is widely sold as the Siamese algae eater. It has a bright brownish elongate body with a slightly flat belly. It has a prominent brown-black horizontal stripe extending from nose to tail.


The Siamensis Algae Eaters (SAE) fish may grow up to the length of 16 centimeters. It possesses small maxillary barbels and an unfringed shallowly arcuate upper lip.

Two other similar species are traded as "Siamensis algae eaters", namely Crossocheilus atrilimes, a species that likes to eat Java moss rather than Red algae, and the second one is an undescribed species of Crossocheilus.

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Adding some type of algae eater fish which active into the live plants aquarium or aquascaping aquarium such as Gyrinocheilus aymonieri is very effective for the algae control, specially to cleaning Diatom Brown algae and types of Green algae which new growth.

Because they so active, with a ratio of one Gyrinocheilus fish for every 40 liters of water, they are effective enough to eradicate and controlling algae growth in the aquarium.

Gyrinocheilus aymonieri also known as Chinese algae eater fish or sucking loach, is the single genus in the family Gyrinocheilidae, a family of small Southeast Asian cypriniform fishes that live in fast-flowing freshwater mountain streams. They hold on to fixed objects using a sucker-like mouth, and despite the name, feed on a wide range of detritus, rather than simply on algae.

However, before choosing this type of "algae eater fish" for your aquarium algae control, the Gyrinocheilus aymonieri when an adult (12.5 cm) are territorial and aggressive towards other fish, and also less diligent eating and eradicate algae. So, you should choose the Chinese algae eater fish that has not grown as a natural algae remover for your planted aquarium to controlling algae growth.

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Ramshorn snails (Planorbidae) is a kind of aquarium algae eater which feed on most types of Algae, as well as any dieing or decaying waste in the tank. As an algae snails, they will not eat live plants or damage live plants; however they do make very short order of any wilting leaves in a tank.

The aquarium experts found that ramshorn will even remove Cyanobacteria (Blue green algae) from a tank. The effect is not only one of regulating the organics that may contribute to Cyanobacteria, but the snails attack and eat the bio-film which makes up the base of blue green algae.

A few of these algae snails can strip a pretty large plant of all algae or Cyaonobacteria overnight. Red Ramshorn snail are also said to eat Hydra. They are considered to be the best available cure for aquarium hydra on the market. Better to have not personally tried them for this particular issue, but given their other merits and their seemingly unconditional appetite for anything nasty in a tank, no doubts they would be worth a try if you had an issue with hydra.

Aside from food Ramshorn snails have very few requirements. They do breathe air, and need to travel to the top on occasion, but from some resources it is not often that they need to do so. They have a very large pulmonary chamber inside the shell which allows them to store a lot of air. They are a true aquatic snails but do not have gills.


To control snails population in your aquarium you may should keep reading on these below. If there is abundant food and calcium to promote growth, then the Ramshorn snails like most scavengers will reproduce at a rate relative to the available food in a tank. If you have a lot of waste and a lot of Algae, then you will have a lot of snails. However, if you limit waste, feeding your aquarium fish conservatively and do not promote algae growth, then the population of Ramshorn snails and other algae snails will remain smaller.

If the Ramshorn snail population explodes, first you need to clean the tank for the snail control and then you can reduce the population by removing the smaller snails while leaving the largest ones in order to keep control the algae growth in aquariums. Since the larger Ramshorn snails eat more, there will be less available food per snail and less of a tendency to reproduce as long as the tank stays clean.

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