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Originally Posted by tinkerman
The sae gets 6 inches. The only thing I have seen them eat is fish food. I have a cae That I think doe a good job cleaning. I had one that got to be 4 inches then took him out, he seemed to become kinda territoria and would chase fish if they came around when he was cleaning. The flying fox is the one that you are thinking of I believe that will go after fish and suck on slime coats. All of these get to be around 6 inches. I have had flag fish and have yet to see them eat hair or thread algea along with others mentioned for certain algea clean up. This is only my personal experience with some of the algea eater.
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Tinkerman,
CAE's are real SOB's when they grow up (8 inches), and they don't even eat algae then. They will harass other fish to death. They are perhaps the worse choice for an algae eater there is.
Siamese Algae Eaters need a spot to call their own, like a clump of plants. When they are secure like that, they do eat algae and aren't a tenth of an aggressive fish.
Flying foxes suck on slime when they are very hungry. Starving Otocinclus do the same thing. Both need copious amounts of greens to eat as well as algae. Takes a lot of food to keep the Herbivores going.
Dave