algae eater's are aggressive???
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What species of it? Many plecos will seek a fish based diet and turn on their tankmates. This is especially true I believe if the plecostomus isen't well fed with a variety of food stuff (wafers, fresh veggies, shrimp etc.). Once they get the taste of a fish though there typically isen't anything you can do to stop it.
If its a Chinese Algae Eater then it will become increasingly agressive as it matures towards other fish- do not confuse this fish with Flying Fox, False Flying fox, Siamese Algae Eater and Oto algae eating fish.
This is what CAE's (chinese algae eaters) look like;
http://badmanstropicalfish.com/profiles/profile47.html
They vary quite a bit in colouring and patterning, there is also an attractive golden variety too.
Because these algae eating fish often become very territorial and agressive as they mature, few people choose to keep these fish in the long term as they do not make good community fish in general.
This is what CAE's (chinese algae eaters) look like;
http://badmanstropicalfish.com/profiles/profile47.html
They vary quite a bit in colouring and patterning, there is also an attractive golden variety too.
Because these algae eating fish often become very territorial and agressive as they mature, few people choose to keep these fish in the long term as they do not make good community fish in general.
Emergency adopted one at 4", didn't have anywhere else to put him, so I put him in with a jack dempsey, a firemouth, and an immature midas. In 6 months, at 5", I had to give him away, he was damaging my cichlids! I'll never own one again, not even to save him from death, as the case was then.