Just want to share my experience with SAEs. I've had them growing well into maturity in my discus tank, at one point they were displaying mating rituals but no eggs was ever found. I lost all three of them all at once when my heater failed and raised my tank to 95F few month ago.
They did eat whatever I fed my discus, they were crazy about blood worms. I thought they didn't do much algae control because they're always the first to attack the food. But I realize I might be wrong "ONE WEEK" after they were gone. Hair algae started to appear and eventually took over all of my plants and driftwood and even on the gravel.
The only thing negative I would say about them is that they spook the heck out of my discus when they(discus) were young. And also you can never catch them without destroying half of your aquascape. I do miss them.
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