I started with one per 15 gallons in my 80 gallon for a total of 5 and that
was plenty. They get big and become food hogs come feeding time. I would
go with 5 of them for a tank your size. I would then add some female flag
fish to handle any thread algae outbreaks you might have.


"Blake" wrote in message
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I've found a website to buy the true SAE, but they're recommending 1 per
5g.
This seems a bit much to me... I've got a 155g planted aquarium, so that'd
be an awful lot of SAE's. Right now, I've got two chinese algae eaters, a
pl*co, some pearl gourami's, rosy barbs, rainbow fish, diamond tetras, a
few
mollies, and assorted small tetras. I'd like to get some SAE's and
possibly
transfer one of the Chinese guys over to a smaller tank, but do I really
need 31??