Please ID

Hi All

I hope you can be off assistance. I purchased the following little fish yesterday.

Can anyone please ID this little guy so I can google it up for info or if anyone can give any information regarding on what to feed would be greatly appreciated.

My apologies for this bad cellphone pic.

Many thanks

The_Fish_Guy

 

Looks like a albino SAE

 

Not a SAE i think. had a few of these guys before. They get agro. CAE maybe

 

My first impression was also CAE.

How many barbels does it have?

 

Hi all,for the sake of any newcomers let us rather use the full names rather than abbreviations! Siamese algae eater rather than SAE.

 

albino chinese algae eater, see the sucker mouth?
not a good fish for the community tank, i would take it back.

@scotty, the forum recognises certain abbreviations, so if you hover your mouse cursor over a green abbreviation like SAE or CAE, then it will show you the meaning

 

How does a newcomer know this! It is fine for you and I and others who have been around some time. Unfortunately the world has become a place of abbreviations.

 

That's an albino Chinese algae eater. Great for cleaning up ulgae when food is scarce but can become lazy as it gets bigger. It is also know to suck slime and scales off of other flatter fish. HTH

 

Hi All, thanks for this info, Yesterday my Neons started dying out and I saw one of them the eyes were actually eaten out, so yesterday afternoon I glanced on this page and when I read that this fish is not a good community fish and that eats the slime of the other fish I suspected this fish, so I took it out for and back to the fish shop I bought It from. I was scared that it will kill my other fish. My other Neons are fine now... thanks for the heads up guys, sorry for only replying now.

 

@The_Fish_Guy - What fish do you have in this tank? Just trying to make sure it was the CAE and not one of your other tank mates that sucked the eyes out.

 

@MarcHawke Ive got 5 Guppies, 2 Dwarf gouramies and now 2 Neons at the moment.

 

@The_Fish_Guy - I had a dead harlequin that had had it's eyes removed. The rest of the fish was fine (other than being dead). I assume it was my Gouramis? Are your gouramis male/female?

 

Maybe bud, I don't know, I had 6 Neons, since removing this algea eater the other two Neons survied... so im not sure


Ive got two male gouramis, the only tend to bother each other and leave the other fish alone.

 

Probably the CAE/SAE then. I'm not sure what did it in my tank.