Algae Eater Cae

The chinese algae eater gyrinocheilus aymonieri was first described by tirant in 1883. The plecostamus or pleco is a prehistoric looking algae eater available in three varieties for three different tank sizes and and setups. Chinese algae eaters are relatively straightforward to care for provided that you give your fish clean well oxygenated water.

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Unlike true saes they have dark colored pelvic anal and dorsal fins.

Algae eater cae. The common pleco is a voracious eater who will uproot plants can grow to a whopping 2 feet in length and is best housed in a 50 gallon tank. This is what we know from the theory however things are a bit different in the real life. The chinese algae eater or cae gyrinocheilus aymonieri is semi aggressive and grows much larger than true saes.

The territorial flying fox epalzeorhynchos kalopterus look nearly identical but aren t very interested in eating algae. Remove fish waste and decomposing organic matter from the tank and substrate each week by using an aquarium vacuum and change 25 to 30 of the aquarium water. Origin and taxonomy of chinese algae eater.

Chinese algae eater care and keeping chinese algae eater or golden algae eater lat gyrinocheilus aymonieri is not very large tank fish that will help its tank owner to deal with algae in it. It was named after the french linguist and explorer étienne françois aymonier chinese algae eater was first exported to germany in 1956 for the aquarium trade prior to that they were used as a food fish in the native countries.