[gibmaker]

Re: SAE's good bye!

I have had them for over a year and they still eat algae, don't harass other fish, and they never eat my plants.

 

[gibmaker]

Re: SAE's good bye!

maybe you guys are feeding them too much? I feed mine once a day with blood worms. They never eat my plants and always eat algae, maybe I am just lucky?

 

[gibmaker]

Re: SAE's good bye!

Folks, I have 3 SAEs in my 38-gallon tank. Based on what everyone's saying, I should remove them. I put them in there to take care of any algae in the tank. What algae eaters should I swap them for, should I find them cleaning out any plants?

Thank you.

If they are not hurting your plants or other tank mates I would leave them

 

[gibmaker]

Re: SAE's good bye!

Okay, I need to amend my original statement. After a bit of research, it turns out I do not have a real SAE, and despite what my lfs store me, I do have one of the Chinese Algae Eaters.:---)

I got suspicious after the above pics showed nice straight black stripes, when mine has a row of connected rough diamond shapes.

This explains the aggression with my poser of a SAE.

Mea culpa. Or rather Mea LFS culpa.

Get rid of that thing it will get huge.