Miss- ID'd fish? Chinese algae eater or Gold algae eater?

[sudz]

Hey!

My fish can be located here:

http://www.aquariumadvice.com/photopost/data/554/medium/Chinese_Sucker.jpg

This is a picture i took a month ago (or so)

I look online for chinese algae eaters and lo and behold... they're brown. So i finally found a fish that resembles mine:

http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Display.cfm?pCatId=938

Is this REALLY what my "chinese algae eater" is? Did Big AL's screw up? Its sad that its taken me almost a year to notice... and it WOULD explain why it attacked my cherry barbs almost regularly (i moved them to my 44 gallon when i got it) Now its just the frog, My "chinese algae eater" and 6 neon tetra's.

 

[Crusis]

It's not bothering the tetras, but it attacked the cherry barbs?

 

[sudz]

Yeah, it's quite weird. I've NEVER seen it even notice the tetra's. But it would regularly chase the cherries across the tank 3 or 4 times before it gave up. It stressed one out (the smaller of the 2 barbs) and eventually it went belly up, i had one for a while then bought 2 more smaller guys.

It also doesn't care about my frog. Nor did it care about my clown loach when it was in there. Odd eh?

 

[sudz]

1 x 10G Spawning <chica boom chica boom boom>

LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Xzap]

This is a CAE

dave

 

[sudz]

Bah. I'll have to wait until i get home. The proxy at my work blocked that image because its from "girlnextdoor.tv" ...

[does double-take]

(from the popular movie starring elisa cuthbert!!!!)

lol

 

[Zezmo]

a Golden Algae Eater is the albino form of a Chinese Algae Eater... they are the same fish.
Thier aggression, which increases with age, is usually against "flat" sided fish.

 

[sudz]

So they will both eat BBA?

 

[Simpte]

They do not eat bba. SAEs do (Siamese Algae Eater).
Florida Flagfish will also eat bba. These are the only 2 known species that do to my knowledge.

 

[Zagz]

I have a CAE that is gold. The gold is a variant.

 

[workfortheman]

They do not eat bba. SAEs do (Siamese Algae Eater).
Florida Flagfish will also eat bba. These are the only 2 known species that do to my knowledge.

I can attest to this. But beware of keeping the CAE with an SAE. Mine treats it as his mortal enemy. Must be some kinda species superiority thing or something!

 

[sudz]

Alright, Now i just gotta get a SAE. :-(

 

[Zezmo]

Also, my peacful Rainbow Shark hated the GAE (CAE) and would go berzerko whenever he saw him... massively diplaying.

 

[Apocalypse_Gold]

I had an algae eater that was half cae brown and half gold when I bought it but is now all gold. SAE are more peaceful and do a great job, but they are often mislabeled and so you may end up with an aggressive Flying Fox that will pick on other fish and not eat algae. Florida-flag fish do a good job with BBA also but they can be mean to smaller fish, especially when they get older, and when spawning-they are very protective parents.