Re: [APD] Plant Eating Algae Eaters

["AZ Burns" <aerburns at hotmail_com>]

Somewhere in Tolkien (The books, you know, the ones the movies are based on) 
it says ...

"Go not to the elves for answers, for they will tell you both yes and no"

... apparently the same is true here :P J/K

Thanks though. Good to know that the SAEs do have an appetite for fine 
leaved plants.  Will this include the "foxtail" style plants like Ambulia or 
Cabomba?

Maybe I better stick to Shrimp, Those cherry shrimp are pretty nice, but I 
think my checkbook would leave me if I got enough for a 75 gallon tank.

AZ Burns

> From: "S. Hieber" <shieber at yahoo_com>
> Reply-To: aquatic plants digest <aquatic-plants at actwin_com>
> To: aquatic plants digest <aquatic-plants at actwin_com>
> Subject: Re: [APD] Plant Eating Algae Eaters
> Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 16:03:10 -0800 (PST)
>
> SAEs indeed, as a general rule, will nibble away on fine
> leaf plants. Rotala Walichi, forget it; they can take it
> down to stems in no time and keep it that way. Rotal
> Indica, I don't think they hurt it all all. Good for
> keeping fine strand algae at bay.
>
> I've heard all kinds of things about flag fish from well
> behaved to nasty to other fish and from plant polite to
> (eek) plant eating. Guess it depends on the individual
> fish.
>
> Scott H.
> --- AZ Burns <aerburns at hotmail_com> wrote:
> > I have quite the infestation of hair algae all over my
> > baby's tears in my 75
> > gallon tank that I set up this weekend.  They were in
> > pretty bad shape when
> > I got them, but I didn't notice at the store.  Now the
> > algae is spreading to
> > the other plants, and I think I'm in need of some Algae
> > eating fish.  My
> > plant guru at my LFS swears by American Flag Fish, and
> > trash talks the SAEs
> > saying that they decimated one of his rotala sp (can't
> > remember which)  I
> > however have heard a lot more instances of AFF eating
> > plants than SAEs.
> >
>
> =====
> S. Hieber
>
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