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    This fish devours algae, where to buy?

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    Florida Flag Fish

    A most efficient weapon against HAIR ALGAE in your
    aquarium. They just LOVE to eat this algae.
    They will even devour hair algae forms that
    Siamese Algae Eaters (SAEs) won't touch. Its
    been noted recently that several forms of Bush
    Algae will also fall before a FFF onslaught.
    The Florida Flag Fish (FFF) also makes short
    work of Lemna minor and Wolffiia arrihza; two
    forms of Duck weed. Duckweed is a really
    annoying surface plant that spreads rapidly
    and blocks light to your aquarium plants.


    This is a tough little fish that lives and
    prospers under some truly WIDE water conditions
    from the very soft, acidic waters of a discus
    tank, to very hard waters in an African Cichlid
    tank (though you don't want to keep 'em w/ those
    aggressive African Cichlids), to even Brackish
    water. It is very resistant to disease, temperature
    changes, pH swings and to water change stress.


    FFF grow not much bigger than 2"; and are
    shoaling fish.. They breed VERY easily.
    Please note, males will defend their eggs
    from other fish that try toencroach. This
    area is usually a 6 squ inch zone so its
    insignificant in large planted aquaria. To
    prevent this behavior, be prepared to separate
    males from females to prevent them from breeding.
    Male FFF are also the most attractive compared to
    the Female FFF. Reduce your fish feedings to
    encourage even speedier hairy algae elimination.
    Use standard acclimatization protocols for breaking in
    new fish.

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    I think ECTAN post a thread in the fishkeeping section..

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    This is one of those fish which we don't get here... at least I've not seen it... both the american flag fish and the ameca splendans have a good reputation for dealing with algae... both can't be gotten locally. At least not that I know of.
    Allen

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    and maybe with good reason, since its likely to kill every other fish in your tank (thereby reducing bioload and reducing algae in the process )

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