https://youtu.be/-2g12btSK8c
How to get it out without tearing up the tank or creating a fatal tornado for the rest? I want to fry it for dinner!!!! Grrr.....
Now i no longer believe websites which keep saying this or that fish is peaceful. Found a red p. gertrudae struggling with tail bitten off. Wonder who did it.
My SAE has similar behavior but only when it is trying to 'protect' his pellet food.
Sometimes it also chase other algae eaters but no harm caused. Not as frequent as shown in your video. But it gets chase by golden algae eater at times.
From your video, it seems like the tank is quite crowded. Or there is food for it at that location?
Overall I have no issue with mine so far.
They gathered there for the food. Its a large tank 120cmx45cmx45cm. I guess have to avoid giving large pellet for meal.
Mine is also aggressive when it got stressed or competing for food. I took it out using trap. You can search DIY trap made from mineral water bottle, it's very effective. I removed the whole school of tetras and those hungry SAE using the trap, didn't affect any plant.
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Yeah, for community tanks with lots of fast fishes, its best to break up the food wafers and scatter them around to all 4 corners of the tank, that way it reduces the competition at each food supply area and more fishes get to eat. I have to do that in most of my tanks, especially those that have tetras.Originally Posted by Il Pirata
Yah might consider trapping it. Will monitor and see. Thanks!
I finally netted it out.... phew!
My sae does nothing about the algae. It only aims for the pellets and my shrimps!
SAE is one of the worst fish to have in a community tank.
When it is small, it is cute and eats algae. But as it grow bigger it eats only pellet food and is a bully.
I trap one and put it into a breeder cage within the tank with a cover, planning to give it away to a LFS the next day.
Next morning, the SAE knocked the cage cover opened and jump back into the tank.
I manage to trap it again the next day and put it back to the breeder cage but this time I tied the cover to the cage with a steel wire. I can hear it knocking against the cover a few times, trying to escape.
Next morning I found it dead. Its head was red from the knocking and I guess it knocked itself out and drowned.
Sad and astonishing indeed.
SAE ..... NO THANKS !
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Wow...TS
4th second that Guppy/Endler is beautiful.
Same go to CAE too. I witness CAE harassing my tiger barb until death. My current tank, my running nose tetra is also super aggressive toward my otos. It keep nipping on otos fins. Sadly, this morning i saw one of my zebra otos dead. I suspect is my running nose kill it
Those CAE can really swim fast. They are very swift swimmers.Same go to CAE too. I witness CAE harassing my tiger barb until death. My current tank, my running nose tetra is also super aggressive toward my otos. It keep nipping on otos fins. Sadly, this morning i saw one of my zebra otos dead. I suspect is my running nose kill it
Luckily they didn't manage to eat any of my C. Sterbais. Those Sterbais are poor creatures which don't disturb others, and they are very helpless and blind fish.
LIFE IS UNBEARABLE WITHOUT A FISH TANK!!!
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Il Parata and peanut88, were your SAE solo or part of a school of SAEs? I think they are less aggressive to other fishes when they have their own kind to "play" with (observation from past tanks).
I have 15 in my 6 footer and they form small schools and graze together although there is so much space. There is a big main gang of the bigger ones and a few smaller gangs of smaller fishes. But they do school together as 1 large gang sometimes.
I can't comment about them bullying other fish, because the only other fish is the arowana.
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Just get Yamato shrimps. That work as wonderfully or even better than an SAE. My shrimp is as big as my thumb now hahahaha.
I just caught my two SAEs out this past weekend and gave away too. Not only competing for food but also pulling out the hair grass!!
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