>plants on the one side of my tank facing the sun are coated from top to bottom in this emerald green algae
>cherry shrimp seem to have zero aptitude for eating it like they do for brown/black algae
Should I get an algae eater fish? There's a hillstream loach at my local pet store that caught my eye. Would the loach snack on the shrimp?
Thing is this is supposed to be a low-maintenance tank since there are parts of the year where I'm gone for a good 2+ weeks at a time. I won't be able to feed the little nigga and I don't want to come back to a rotting corpse killing my whole tank or my autofeeder somehow clogging my filter and killing my entire tank of fish again.