I have a 46 gallon with 4 small goldfish. I have an aquclear 50 (200gph) aquclear 30 (150 gph) fluval 2 plus( not sure, around 100gph I think) and a marineland multi stage Canistere filter C-160 (160 gph). I've been having some algae problems lately, would a rubbernose be ok to add, or is that too much bio load? I dont wanna stunt my fishies my overstocking.

It shouldn't be a problem hun. just make sure you have some wood in the tank (smallpeice) so the pleco has something to munch on. Also I suggest a bristlenose much better at eating algae than the rubber.

thanks, I do have a piece of driftwood. Which kind of gets bigger?

bristles gets alittle bigger than the rubber, but I have found that rubbers just dont clean like the bristle does hun. I got 2 bristles in my 80 gal tank and they dont leave a piece of algae behind. But just so everyone who reads this none of these plecos will eat brown algae only green.

Rubbers 2-3" long
bristles 3-4" long

hope that helps

well, thats just perfect cause most of my algae problem is brown algae. Oh well, maybe i'll get one to take care of the green algae.

Hun to help rid of brown:
1. we got to understand that brown isnt a real algae, its a diamiton from water source.
So to help get rid of it, there is a product that is safe that will help asorb this for you its call Phos-sorb, after reading instructions place it in your HOB this will trap these nasty guys. There is another one which I havent tried yet thats called
http://www.algone.com/diatoms.php havent tried it yet since I use phos-sorb

cool, where can I get it? Does it get rid of all of it? It would look alot nicer but my goldies really love the taste of the brown algae! They cant get it off the glass most of the time though. Oh, and I just noticed I have no green algae left except a few specks on the drifwood, its all overgrown with brown algae!