What Is This Fish?

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• Nov 5, 2007

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What kind of fish is this?? I have been told it is a flyingfox by some, and a siamese algae eaters by others.

 

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QuotheRaven

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• Nov 5, 2007

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Well it may be either, Flying foxes and Siamese Algae eaters are very similiar to look at so it could be either one

http/www.fishforums.net/content/Cyprinid...se-Algae-Eater/


see the link

 

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• Nov 5, 2007

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Siamese algea eater, easy to tell by the zig zag edges of the lateral stripe.

 

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• Nov 5, 2007

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yes, and the stripe goes all the way to the tail fork. the real SAE have 2 little whiskers to, although they are hard to see.

 

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• Nov 5, 2007

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ah i've always confused the 2

 

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• Nov 5, 2007

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Nice fish Looks gr8.

 

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Straydum said:

ah i've always confused the 2

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I did research on them for about 2 months before finally deciding that I'd found one in the LFS, a lot of the time the two are mis-sold and sometimes even confused with the Chinese Algae Eater. The real SAE's will eat black and hair algae and won't get aggressive towards others, they're a great little fish.