yet another sae or flying fox id thread

[sudz]

I'm 80% certian these are genuine siamese algae eaters. Bought them about 6 months ago as tiny little things. They were labeled as " siamese flying fox"...

Bought them to keep bba in check after I did a couple treatments wroth peroxide. No bba... so my belief that they are bonfire sae's.
Nuff talking, here's the pictures.

 

[bettaowner]

Those are Siamese algae eaters

 

[aqua_chem]

Agreed, SAEs.

 

[sudz]

Yippee!!! Is it possible to sex them?

 

[bettaowner]

I've never heard of this species breeding so I don't think you can easily tell the gender

 

[Mebbid]

I've never heard of this species breeding so I don't think you can easily tell the gender

My LFS has issues getting these in exactly because of that reason. He said that they have never been successfully bred in captivity and he is one of the ones that I trust.

 

[sudz]

More googling has found out that breeders actually inject hormones into the water to trigger breeding. Looks like I won't be making babies anytime soon!