alright in spike's tank i have white gravel it's a little 2 gal tank, but the thing grows algea like NO OTHER! i dont know what i should do... should i take out the gravel?? or what can i do to fix this mess??

LOL I hear you… awhile ago I set up my 5 gallon betta tank with white gravel thinking it would look really pretty… not considering that it would soon be GREEN!! Do you have a light on the tnak, or is it near a window? First off figure out if theres too much light on it. You could try getting a little otocinclus catfish. Theyre good algae eaters but the ones I had never ate the green algae, only brown, so it depends on what kind you have. Other than that I really dont know, unless you want to change to a darker substrate (which is what Im considering). My other betta tank has black gravel that always looks great!

yea... its a light on top of his tank... and its Green yuck.. what about a ghost shrimp? or would he eat it?

You could try a ghost shrimp in there. But yeah, he might try to eat it. Mine tried to eat the oto I put in there!

oh my...well its worth a shot...

oui! i'm going to be going to go get a oto/ghost shrimp.. hmm mabe some new substrate, and melafix... oh and maybe some more de-cholorinate.

lol i love how things start to snow ball... soon i'l be bringing home a whole tank!

well guys i came home with 3 ghost shrip, 1 tiny mystery golden snail, and an oto catfish... and spike hasnt bothered any of them... its looking good guys!!! and i bought black substrate... my algea problems are over lol...

LOL Black, brown, anything dark is the way to go! I'll probably end up switching my pretty white gravel over to brown pretty soon too. Be sure and provide some real food for the oto and snail in addition to whats on the tank. They'll eat little sinking algae wafers.

brown? that sounds like a nice color! hm.. they didnt have any brown though.. i have those algea waffers the snail like attacked one never seen one move so fast