[AquaticLife] Algae eaters.
What size tank? What kind of water parameters?
The Mongabay profile on Swordtails… http://fish.mongabay.com/species/Xiphophorus_helleri.html shows one of the compatible species are loricarids (armored suckermouth catfish with 600 species found in Central and South America… many are algae eaters) http://fish.mongabay.com/loricariidae.htm from 1.5″ Otocinclus affinis to 4″-6″ Dwarf Pleco’s to the 18″-24″ BIG BOY Common Pleco’s.
Many of these prefer low pH water but many can also do well in neutral to low to mid 7’s pH. I have hard water with high 7’s pH and I’ve had a couple of different pleco species all do well.
Lenny Vasbinder Fish Blog - http://GoldLenny.blogspot.com (Links to any articles referenced in above reply are listed on the right side, alphabetically under Labels and also under Archives by Year, Month)
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