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Old 24-10-2004, 09:14 AM
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I've had SAEs in my tank over and over again. They are awesome for cleaning
out hair algae. I know it's a small tank, only 15 gallons, but I usually
have 2-3 anyways. They are never aggressive and co-exist peacefully with my
school of Harlequin Rasboras. They get really huge in a few months and I
usually would just add them to the 48 gallon at work...but once that added
up to about 8 of them (a really cool school) I started trading them in at
the LFS for much smaller ones. They usually get about 3 inches long in my
tank. I notice usually as they get bigger they feed much less on the algae
on the leaves and eat more flake food from the surface or follow around the
other bottom feeders and eat shrimp pellets.

Opinions? Thanx.

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That's been my experience as well. The're almost as aggresive feeders as
the rainbows in my tank.

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Old 24-10-2004, 11:28 PM
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Agree they watch for other foods as they grow. but with the large ones I
have in my 55 gallon, I don't have an algae problem either. They, my 2-3
flying foxes and pair of rosy barbs keep algae under control.

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That's been my experience as well. The're almost as aggresive feeders as
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when i had my 29Gal tank set up as a community tank, i had two of those
one was small, and the other was huge - Plus 3 Dalmation Mollies 2
Albino Tiger Barbs 4 Rainbow fish 1 Pleco and about 6 Black Mollies

Once the SAE got to a certian size it always tryed to attack the other
fish. One day i actually caught it attack and kill one of the black
mollies. So it went into a 1 Gal tank, I only feed the damned thing like
twice over a 13 Month period! then it died...But the smaller SAE is
living fine im my mothers 20Gal Community tank.

First time i see it attack and kill a fish, it becomes food for
my oscars



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when i had my 29Gal tank set up as a community tank, i had two of those
one was small, and the other was huge - Plus 3 Dalmation Mollies 2
Albino Tiger Barbs 4 Rainbow fish 1 Pleco and about 6 Black Mollies

Once the SAE got to a certian size it always tryed to attack the other
fish. One day i actually caught it attack and kill one of the black
mollies. So it went into a 1 Gal tank, I only feed the damned thing like
twice over a 13 Month period! then it died...But the smaller SAE is
living fine im my mothers 20Gal Community tank.

First time i see it attack and kill a fish, it becomes food for
my oscars



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I have found that keeping them in a group of 3 - 4 minimum they take their
agression out on each other with little or no harm done. Though I have never
kept them with Black Mollies.

Tony




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Old 30-10-2004, 09:58 AM
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Hmm..that's weird. You sure you had a SAE? I've probably had over 25 SAEs
now and NONE have been known to attack other fish. They might chase
eachother around a little among their own species but that's it. I had 3
inch SAEs with about 5 little neons and they didn't touch them. SAEs are
always non-agressive and are a really good community fish.

Often chinese algae eaters or flying foxes can be really agressive and
attack other fish as you say.

Dave.

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when i had my 29Gal tank set up as a community tank, i had two of those
one was small, and the other was huge - Plus 3 Dalmation Mollies 2
Albino Tiger Barbs 4 Rainbow fish 1 Pleco and about 6 Black Mollies

Once the SAE got to a certian size it always tryed to attack the other
fish. One day i actually caught it attack and kill one of the black
mollies. So it went into a 1 Gal tank, I only feed the damned thing like
twice over a 13 Month period! then it died...But the smaller SAE is
living fine im my mothers 20Gal Community tank.

First time i see it attack and kill a fish, it becomes food for
my oscars



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On 2004-10-29, RadCliffe -DONTEMAIL wrote:
when i had my 29Gal tank set up as a community tank, i had two of those
one was small, and the other was huge - Plus 3 Dalmation Mollies 2
Albino Tiger Barbs 4 Rainbow fish 1 Pleco and about 6 Black Mollies

Once the SAE got to a certian size it always tryed to attack the other
fish. One day i actually caught it attack and kill one of the black
mollies. So it went into a 1 Gal tank, I only feed the damned thing like
twice over a 13 Month period! then it died...But the smaller SAE is
living fine im my mothers 20Gal Community tank.

First time i see it attack and kill a fish, it becomes food for
my oscars


Yeah, that's too bad since SAE's are caught live and not bred. Mine
will argue with other bottom feeders for food, but won't ever actually
attack any of them. One of mine likes to be cleaned by the oto that
it shares a tank with.


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