Best Fish For Eating The Algae That Grows On Artificial Plants???!

[Fat Homer]

a group of albino chinese algae eaters will make short work of the algae on your plants.. plus they are schooling fish too!

Maybe i had a different species but last time i kept Chinese Algae Eaters they stopped taking interest in algae a a quick liking to fishes slime coats...

My pleco in the 200G is about as bad, except instead of algae eats left over seafood from my puffer...



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[jeaninel]

Siamese algae eaters would be good. Get to about 4-5" and more peaceful than the CAEs.

 

[jordanroda]

Another eazy question...Tropheus Moori...

 

[vincentwugwg]

Siamese algae eaters would be good. Get to about 4-5" and more peaceful than the CAEs.

aren't they the same fish?

 

[Aquanero]

aren't they the same fish?

No SAE and CAE are two different fish. The SAE which I referred to earlier as a flying fox is one of the few fish that will eat black beard algae. Crossocheius siamensis is the fish you want, the black stripe will run from the tip of the nose right through the end of the fork on the caudual fin.

 

[vincentwugwg]

No SAE and CAE are two different fish. The SAE which I referred to earlier as a flying fox is one of the few fish that will eat black beard algae. Crossocheius siamensis is the fish you want, the black stripe will run from the tip of the nose right through the end of the fork on the caudual fin.

Thanks! I never knew...

 

[pisalious]

Best algae i ever had is the flag tail charcin...But probably will get too big for your aquarium

 

[DeathStalker]

Well the Bluntheads sound the best, but I can't find anyplace that has them (US, North/South Carolina areas)

 

[Allan01230]

because they clean algae better from my experiance than the dark ones. thats why albino LOL