Elaine T Spaketh Thusly:

Ray Martini wrote:
SAE's can become aggressive toward tankmates once they grow. You may want to
look at Ottos to do the algae eating job. Great fish and very peaceful.

I've never had an oto eat BBA. Only SAE will touch that stuff. I've
also never had an SAE turn on tankmates although I've heard reports of
it. I wonder whether some of the fish in the C. siamensis species
complex are more aggressive than others.
I had 3 in a 29G and they were all quite placid. However, I have one large one
in a 10G with my tiger barbs - quite aggressive all around. Not at first but
after a few months they seemed to get used to each other and stopped ignoring.
The SAE is too large and fast for the barbs to nip at, they can't hurt it. The
barbs are safe from the SAE since it can't nip at them, but it does
occasionally try to do the ramming thing. They get out of the way of that, but
it tends to shove them around when there is food floating. It's been going on
for a year and nobody has been hurt so I don't worry about it anymore, in
fact, it's usually quite interesting at feeding time.

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