siamese algae eater

My sisters siamese algae eater was attacking her fish so i took it to try and find a new home for it. i was looking at my tank and i saw its head was outa water, half the body, all of it! it climbed out! but when i stood up it jumped back in! has any one else had this prob? and also im thinking of taking it to a petstore and change it for a pleco.....do you think they will change it?

 

whoa :shock:

Depeding on the pet store they might do a switch. The ones in my area do not generally. You buy a fish you're stuck with it unless you want to just donate it back, even then they're very picky. Call and ask, that's about all you can do.

 

not a bad idea
omg it just dissapeard! :shock:

 

ok, i found it lol, it was out again. this thing scares me! i love plecos! they are cool! even though they are 2X the size of my fish they are so cool!

 

I have a crazy pleco that will float belly-up at the surface and eat the cichlids' pellets (I have a pic around here somewhere). He also used to eat krill while floating around the tank mindlessly bumping into everything. And I've actually seen him fight some of my african cichlids.

-Chelle

 

haha my pleco does that to t-chelle

 

Here's the pic. His belly sticking out of the water like that just cries out "Poke me!"



-Chelle

 

aww, thats cute! how big is your pleco? mine is about 3" and all my 2 do is fight over the cave i have. when they are hungry they grab some of the food that fell at the bottom. as for that other algae eater i have no clue where it went! its just gone! :shock: uhh i g2g check my filter now. lol.

 

just a little update. i found it, it was hiding somewhere, one min its here next its gone. it spent 75% of yesterday trying to get out the water.

 

That one is about 5" or 6" SL now (in that pic he was about 4").

I have another 6" one in my 75. And the 4 in the pond are 3", 5", 8" and 8". At least that's how big they where when I put them in there. It will be interesting to see how much they've grown when I clean the pond in the fall.

-Chelle

 

very cool

 

My algae eater its a simease is so lazy it doesnt even clean, it will eat flake food then go an perch itself on my big rock... :? is this normal... o well im gettin a pleco soon

 

You want mine?!!!!!!!!! lol, still tryin to get rid of it, i think its scared of my blue gourami! lol.