I get a lot of emails asking if the Aquarium shrimp really do eat algae well. I always try to answer the best I can, but decided that the old saying about a picture is worth a thousand words, will trump any explanations that I can muster.....
So what did I do? I found a small 5" pvc pipe that I had used in a homemade sponge filter. It was in an unused tank for quite sometime and had a pretty good amount of algae on the surface. I pulled it from the tank and dropped it into one of my Red Cherry Shrimp tanks.
As you can see in Photo 1, the pvc pipe had a pretty good amount on it.
Even I am taken back sometimes at how much algae these little creatures can devour. If you are looking for Natural Algae control, look no further. The red cherry shrimp , or any of our aquarium shrimp for that matter, can do the job for you and then some!!