Feeding algae-eaters

"esandland" wrote in
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| Can anyone give me any advice on how to keep my algae-eater
healthy....
| I've got a small (4cm) chinese hillstream loach, only had him for a
| month or so. Bought some algae pellets and started chucking them
in
| for him....woh...algae outburst! Then I got some frozen bloodworm
which
| he seemed to gobble down off the gravel. But....now he doesn't
react to
| the bloodworm and i'm not putting the pellets in often (for obvious
| reasons)....is he ok with the small amounts of algae that grow on
the
| glass?
|

Every once in a while, give him some veggies. Zuchini seems to be
popular. Microwave it for a few seconds to soften.