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From: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria,rec.aquaria
Subject: Re: Flying Foxes and Hair Algae
Message-ID: <24836@gryphon.COM>
Date: 16 Jan 90 21:39:33 GMT
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <9001152302.AA02272@sage.cc.purdue.edu> qnp@SAGE.CC.PURDUE.EDU (vinod kutty) writes:
>
>	I am not sure if any algae eaters consume hair algae. Somehow, they 
>really seem to dislike the stuff. I don't know if Flying Foxes do or not
>because I have been careful at preventing it! I guess I don't want to know if 
>they do. They are almost starved in my tank and they, being a little smarter
>Chinese algae eater, know when I am approaching the tank with food. They
>eat brine shrimp and black worms just like my dwarf cichlids do! WHen they 
>are really hungry, they nibble/browse over a lot of area. They, I think, 
>are really overrated algae eaters. Mollies probably do a better job!

I agree. I bought 4 of them to assist in removing algae from places I
couldnt get, like small anubias leaves. I chose them over the
Chinese algae eaters because fo the latter's propensity for attacking
other fishes slime coat, and over plecos because everybody knows you
can't keep plecos alive.

Well the flying foxes are almost worthless as algae eaters. They
do make *some* contribution to removing algae from leaves
but not much.

I STILL have my 2 plecos I bought 2 months ago. They're doing
a wonderful job of removing algae.

Oh well. At least the f.foxes look neat.