Florida Flag Fish

[mackeith]

does any one know where to get this?
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.
www.floridadriftwood.com/product.asp?0=229&1=230&3=604

[Simon]

used to be available in SG, however for some reason or another, they have disappear. The writeup also failed to include the aggressive-ness of the flagfish

[Ah_ZhaN]

I have seen them around from time to time at Clementi lfs. You can try to email or call Polyart lfs to seek enquiry as well.

[doppelbanddwarf]

I think they were available for some time at Y618, as in there was a tank of them for quite a long period. But i've not been there recently so I'm not sure if they're there anymore.

[minx]

I saw a number of them at Y618 last week. Tried them before, as they grow
to adults, they prefer commercial fish foods. In my opinion its not worth
the while if it is algae you want to get rid of.