bloodlucky
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All of the sudden a few days ago, during school, I suddenly wanted a Chinese algae eater. I have no idea why but I went home and went on Yahoo! Answers (which was not the smartest decision) and saw a few "experienced" users say that they are perfect for a 40 gallon (which I have) and they get big (which is true.) I do have some algae on my walls which I am too lazy to scrape off, so ultimately today I bought a golden algae eater.
Then of course I find another web site that says that if they get hungry, they will eat tank mates. In my 40 I have a ram, platys (including one at youth) neons and danios which are all perfectly susceptible to being the algae eater's target.
I want to avoid cannibalism in any way possible. A few minutes ago I dropped in a piece of an algae wafer hoping the Algae Eater would get it, but instead all the faster smarter fish found it first and swarmed it, leaving my new algae eater unfed.
I was wondering what else I should feed that the algae eater won't have trouble getting at? I have frozen brine shrimp and like 1 more bloodworm cube in the fridge I believe, but CAE prefer algae, I presume.
Then of course I find another web site that says that if they get hungry, they will eat tank mates. In my 40 I have a ram, platys (including one at youth) neons and danios which are all perfectly susceptible to being the algae eater's target.
I want to avoid cannibalism in any way possible. A few minutes ago I dropped in a piece of an algae wafer hoping the Algae Eater would get it, but instead all the faster smarter fish found it first and swarmed it, leaving my new algae eater unfed.
I was wondering what else I should feed that the algae eater won't have trouble getting at? I have frozen brine shrimp and like 1 more bloodworm cube in the fridge I believe, but CAE prefer algae, I presume.