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The Siamese Algae Eater or Crossocheilus oblongus is a unique fish to add to your aquarium due to its very active habits and unmatched love of various aquarium algae, including but not limited to black beard algae. It is recommended that these fish be kept in a group of at least 5 to 6, when adult size to spread out aggression.
These fish are a great beginner fish due to its acceptance of a wide variety of water parameters and ability to handle lower temperatures. It is not uncommon for these fish to jump so a tank with a lid is highly recommended.
The Siamese Algae Eater can reach a max size of 7 inches and is a great community fish in a well established tank with peaceful fish. And is plant safe. It should be kept in slightly larger tanks size of 40 gallons or more.
The Siamese Algae Eater consumes many natural food sources but will accept prepared foods with lots of vegetable matter such as kelp wafers. It is good practice to provide fresh cut vegetables such as cucumber and zucchini.
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It's a great fish He swims around and does his job well will buy more in the future
I bought these to add to the others I had purchased about 6 months ago. Inwas so satisfied with the first batch I bought double this time around. In the photos, I have the new ones next to my mature ones and the rainbows. They are tearing thru the black hair algae well as seen in the pacthy decor. Before those were completely covered
Gave them 2 weeks to settle in and see if there were any health issues. Let me say these little SAE's arrived so stressed they completely lost their signature black stripe lol. Got them into the new tank, took them about 2-3 days to start not being afraid of the other fish, but they did get their stripe back. Happy and healthy 2 weeks later, they swim everywhere together and are keeping the BBA at bay. Extremely happy purchase, it's nice to get new fish that don't break out into disease. Will def be ordering more in the future!
They have packed my fish very well and there were 0 DOA. I even got a friendly note from the one who packed. My siamese algae eaters were very shy but they are now getting used to their tankmates. They are also very interesting fish and very curious about going everywhere in my tank.
I wish the algae eaters were bigger and hungrier but they will get there.
I have a heavily planted tank. When I first introduced the fish he settled to the bottom by the front glass. Presumably stressed and adjusting. Haven’t seen since.
Shipped great and went right to work.
They look great and are happily eating the algae - until they grow up LOL
It took a few days to settle in, tried jumping several times (lid required with these guys!), but after acclimatizing this SAE has been chilling and munching on the BBA infesting my tank, one little nibble at a time! No issues with the Endlers, Pygmy Cory’s, Nerites, or Neocardina, despite being easily the largest by a factor of 2x+! Arrived healthy and looks great!
Awesome
He is great I'm going to order more
Love them!!
SAEs are awesome. Very energetic and even swim with our otos. 3 died in transit out of 7 and Flip made good of the DOA. Want to get more
Great fish, very healthy, they adapted very well to my community tank.
Very happy, I now have 8 total, they like to shoal and are always working on eating algae. I'm glad I bought them and they are nice quality.
Jut what I. Needed!
Great algae eaters, especially blue green algae
Love these hardy algae eaters! Fun to watch and they work hard. All are doing very well in my heavily planted tank.
They work in group, doing a great job cleaning the green algae on the floor of my freshwater aquarium
The two little algae guys went to work the first night they arrived and fit into the community very well schooling with the cat corey crew. The tank looks great and I am ready to give them tablets to reward them for a job well done
On a previous order that was for pea puffers and bladder snails, the snails were so small I just put them in another aquarium to grow out have yet been able to feed them to the puffers.
Got these guys to help me clean up some hair algae. They showed up as healthy as can be and hit their job running!! Super pleased.
Awesome experience as always, i love the way they perfectly package the live fish…they even add a little heat pouch if they know its going somewhere cold. I recieved my SAE and he was spunky and ready to get to work. He arrived very healthy, picture perfect and fit right in witht he rest of my babies!
Always provides extras when ordering large quantities which I highly appreciate. Even if a fishie doesn't make it through shipping, which is rare, there are extras to ensure you get what you paid for. Great experience every time I've ordered from them (5ish times).
When I first learned about these fish I thought they were not very interesting. However, I lately have been battling algea and I was tired of having to remove a lot of it (I know I can control it by changing water/lighting etc). I have some fluval plant lights which work really good as my plants are growing nice, but algea grows really good too... So I decided to get 6 of these fish... Ohh boy I was so impressed, these fish are bullet fast, they kicked up all of the debris that was sitting on my substrate, therefore, they made my filter more efficient. Now my tank is looking spotless (no algea or debris in sight) would totally recommend these fish!
All alive and well 1 week later. Thank you!
All of these little guys arrived live and healthy. Plus the snails are doing great as well. Great company, great product, great customer service. I couldn't be happier
I have had them for awhile now and they are doing well.
Ordered 5 of these and they were shipped within a few business days. Packaging was impressive including lots of insulation, padding, and a heat pad. All five fish arrived healthy and are thriving in my tank.
Purchased 10 to disperse among multiple tanks, they delivered 12 alive and healthy haven’t had a casualty a week later. I put them in a 75 gallon planted tank and the annihilated almost all of the black beard algae in a short amount of time.
