Bala Sharks Eat BBA!!!!!

joestyx

joestyx

I'm Not A Playa I Just Fish A Lot
Jan 24, 2008
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I just set up my first planted aquarium about 2 weeks ago and after a few days I began to get the notorious and often feared BBA outbreak originating from a large amazon sword plant I got at a LFS....So I began searching on the internet to find solutions to fight this fearsome foe, I found stuff like decreasing photoperiod, upping the co2, injecting double doses of flourish excel, and the option i went with getting some siamese algae eaters.....I went to my lfs and they only had 1 SAE (the real one) so i purchased the cool fish with racing stripe streamlined down the middle of it's body and put him to work....The SAE took awhile to start eating the algae, but wasn't really making an impact...Now I have been obeserving something that I didn't find documented anywhere on the internet, my bala sharks were grazing on this eyesore terror named BBA with a vengence.....

I don't know if this is some miracle in the making, but i couldn't find anywhere where someone wrote that they had witnessed bala sharks eating any algae at all let alone BBA.......

What do you all think????
 
It is an interesting discovery, but I worry that it will promote them being kept in inadequately size aquarums. These gat big and are active.
 
what is bba
 
well my miracle has come to an end, after having them for about a year together my Jack Dempsey has eaten my bala sharks....My lights came on and i was observing my tank and noticed that something was in my JD's mouth it was the tail of the the last bala....I didn't even think my JD was big enough to eat them but he did, it's definitely time for the JD to have his own tank.......
 
Winterose said:
I'm sorry to hear you lost you Sharks...
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thank you for you sympathy, but i knew it was gonna happen sooner or later, but i refused to realize that my JD would just turn on them after growing up together with the balas for a year with no problems.....
 
I am amazed your fish lasted that long with your Jack!! I had a Jack for 8 years and he ate every one and everything that moved in the tank. I would have friends feed him by holding food 3-4" over the top of the tank and he would leap out and snag it!! (sometimes with finger tips in there as well) I feed him worms, crickets,fly's and anything else that I caught!! He even ate a bumble bee!!! Good luck with him, I hope he brings you as many years of fun as mine did! As far as the algae goes I just scrub it off and step up the water changes. I find it comes and goes.:)
 
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