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I was wondering if I could add one more fish to my tank. I have a 46 gallon with about 20 small tetras, 2 dwarf gourami, 2 red tail sharks, 3 rosy barb, 1 pearl gourami and 1 algae eater. Can I get away with adding 1 more peral gourami or 2 black tetras

Nah, I'd adjust the existing stock in that tank first. Once your two red tail sharks grow up, they will begin to fight each other. I recommend getting rid of one, and the "algae eater" too. They grow to about a foot, become aggressive, and stop eating algae! These fish are not suitable for community fish tanks, so moving it would be in your best interest.

After that, you'd be wise to add three more rosy barbs. They are shoaling fish, and benefit from being kept in schools/shoals like tetras.

By the way, what kinds of tetras do you have? Certain ones do get larger than others, and affect the bioload differently.

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And when he gets to Heaven, to Saint Peter he will tell: "One more Marine reporting, Sir! I've served my time in Hell."

OK I will try taking the shark back to the store but I the algae eater has been in the tank for about 6 months. If I get rid of the algae eater what should I get to take care of the algae?

As far as the tetras goes I have bloodfins, neons, rummy noses, jewels, bleeding hearts, and redeyes.

it will be alittle full but there shouldn't be any problems.

Thanks for the information

You can add some ottos to clean the algea up

Are ottos hard to keep?

Actually, yes. Ottos are probably the most delicate Loricariid species, or at least the most delicate of the commonly-available Loricariids. They can be hard to take care of for the first month of ownership or so, and they are really demanding as to water conditions. Instead of ottos, I'd go with a bristlenose pleco. They are built like tanks and are very tough, and are also great at cleaning up algae. A bristlenose would be better for your tank than that Chinese algae eater of yours, because BNs are not aggressive, stay much smaller, and actually eat algae throughout their lifespan.

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And when he gets to Heaven, to Saint Peter he will tell: "One more Marine reporting, Sir! I've served my time in Hell."

OK here is a dumb question I can not take the algae eater back to the store, what should I do with him?