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This might help ?
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You just don't want the CAE which is easy to tell by lack of barbels and the stripe does not go through tail .
Flying foxes and SAE should both eat the algae .
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Thank you kind sir. You told me what I need to know.
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Flying Foxes can get aggressive. Both Flying Foxes and SAE are omnivores and will stop eating algae as they grow, neither are great at BHA. I have some Panda Garra ( Garra flavatra ) tomorrow as my possible future algae eaters.
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I guess the whoesaler must not be able to tell the difference either. Both times Twee sold me fish with different names that are identical. I have Siamese Algae eaters which is exactly what I want. I need to take my fat lazy adults back and trade them for more young hungry ones.
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I like my fat SAE and they still eat algae. Thing with SAE and flying fox when I was a kid they were opposite. Seems they switched the name. Flying foxes were the one you wanted. Now the SAE the black center line goes through the the back fin the flying fox the line ends at the fin.
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I don't know. When my existing SAE were young and hungry I was amazed about how fast the BHA was disappearing. Then one day when they were big the algae started coming back.
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I don't know. When my existing SAE were young and hungry I was amazed about how fast the BHA was disappearing. Then one day when they were big the algae started coming back.
Yes, the young ones are great. My LFS won't take the older ones.
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I bet mine will.
That's probably because I don't have a LFS that knows me, almost all of my ordering is done online.
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I’ve had success using flag fish. And they are easier to catch and better looking than SAE.
In my reef I was able to treat with vodka dosing but probably a different type of beard algae.
I HATE BLACK BEARD ALGAE