JackBlasto
Aquarium Advice Freak
I have a Discus tank with low ph and very soft water. Can I put Siamese Algae Eaters in there? Anyone have success with it?
I think everyone's getting confused with Siamese algae eater and Chinese algae eater Chinese is a definite no go but Siamese will be absolutely fine!
Thanks for the clarification. I see the CAE's in the petstore all the time. They are nasty little fish.
I've never seen SAE's. Anyone have photos of them?
There is about her line of the sae breed which I once had called silver sae they're quite rare (apparently) but a really nice fish mine got to about 15 cm before they both died at the age of four my guess was just old age as nothing was wrong with tank parameters etc and no other fish had any symptoms, was quite weird though because they both died within a week of each other after four years! Silver flying fox is the common name or net fish as they're scales look like a net pattern.
SAEs are commonly known BBA eaters. There is a minor visual difference between the true SAE and the flying fox but the flying fox doesn't eat the BBA. On the flying fox the black line doesn't extend all the way across their body to the end of their fin like the true SAE does.
The flying fox also has colour in its fins, while the true SAE has clear, colourless fins. The flying fox is supposed to be the more handsome of the two, but as the saying goes: 'handsome is, as handsome does' lol.
Btw. My first two SAEs set me back $50 for the pair (a discount from $30 each)
Mine are definitely fat and lazy as they are quick to gobble up the food I put in for the others!
I wouldn't swap them though
50 for a pair?!? Sheesh mine were $5 each