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Well...are they any help in getting a planted tank established without major algae issues? I want to set up a 20 gallon high low tech tank with floating plants and LOTS of vallisneria, and when I added the plants after the tank is thoroughly cycled I was going to add algae eaters (likely nerite snails) to keep any budding algae in check until the plants were established enough to outcompete it. I was still going to do the normal planted tank maintenance (water changes, Thrive C for fertilizer, perhaps a half dose of excel) and was going to use a walstad-esque photoperiod of 4 hours on, 4 off, 4 on. Thank you for your thoughts 