Golden Chinese Algae Eater in my 125g?

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knifegill

knifegill

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Yes, I know they are nasty buggers, but a coworker of my wife has a divided betta tank with a golden CAE in there and I offered to take it off of her hands when it gets too nasty and attacks her bettas.

My stock: One alert, responsive 12" Oscar who stand up for himself against the-
One green sunfish, 6", and five mystery sunfish around 2"
One 5" L200 pleco, also a punk.

That's it, plus a few caves and balls of java moss rolling around in there. You think my fish have a chance against a slime-sucking demon from hell?
 
yes they have a chance but i thought i had got away with a good one when i bought a large one and it didnt attack anything for ages.
then it started to suck on my midas who disapproves of love bites and promptly slaughtered it. it was well fed too with hikari cichlid gold, algae wafers, algae in the tank and frozen bloodworm. it was just a mean SOB.

i would imagine your oscar may do the same.
 
Hmm. Food for thought. I guess it's worth a try, at least. At worst, I had a free feeder!
 
mine enjoyed sucking on bichirs.. so it moved to the clownloach tank where it was happy as can be till i found him dead a few months later... he was 5 years old and had lived through the worst of everything..
 
I had one before and my Senegal out of all the bichirs... Got fed up with his sucking antics and somehow ate him.... The senegal was bigger but I was surprised he was able to do it he must have been pissed...
 
Update: He's put on serious heft in the short time I've had him. He might just stay in the 55 though, since my 125g is about to become a species biotope. No, no plants or stones from the area. I'm not rich. But the Peru Oscar, L200 and striped raphael all come from Orinoco River, so a little rootwork and some tannins will pretty much pin the tail on the donkey once my green sunfish have gone to my in-law's pond. Pics of the GCAE:
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CORRECTION: The Rio Orinoco, from what I've figured out, is part of the same waterway, but not the actually same river that enters Peru. Thus, these three species may encounter each other in the Orinoco, but the Oscar itself was collected from Peru, not the Orinoco, even though Oscars are found there.
 
Nice GCAE, wish i can find any golden CAE in my area!
 
There's areas without GCAE? They're like guppies everywhere I've lived. I figured they were universal. Learn something new everyday!
 
you'd be more likely to worry about the sunfish or oscar sucking down that little cyprinid then vice versa
 
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